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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
Robert Southey to Charles Collins, 10-11 December 1791: 'As I have nothing else to say take a story I read yesterday as a true one which strikes me as an instance of more...Robert Southey Mary WollstonecraftOriginal Stories from Real LifePrint: Book
H. J. Jackson notes unknown reader's marginal contradiction of assertion of Samuel Johnson that a dog will be as likely to take a small piece of meat as a large one, when...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Bos...anon James BoswellThe Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.DPrint: Book
H. J. Jackson on readers' responses in annotations to Samuel Johnson's comment that the letter H seldom begins any but the first syllable of a word, recorded by James Bos...anon Annotation in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Jo...Manuscript: annotation in printed text
'C.H. Rolph... picked up [a message that "well-trained impis could outwit upper-class English duffers"] from S. Clarke Hook's stories of Jack, Sam and Pete in the Boys' F...C.H. Rolph S. Clarke Hook[Jack, Sam and Pete stories]Print: Book
[Marginalia]: ms annotations in form of numbers in margin from p.27- p.655 - as if reference system (they are in numerical order); there are also a few marginal notes in ...Henry Fox William CamdenThe history of the most renowned and victorious pr...Print: Book
[Marginalia]: pencil annotations on last binding page are in Latin and appear to be brief notes relating to 4 classes of disorders.Robert ThomasThe modern practice of physic, exhibiting the char...Print: Book
[Marginalia]: 8 leaves of ms notes, in ink, in French, have been bound in at the beginning of the volume. They consist of an introduction praising those who protect and e...Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson marquise de PompadourSuite d'estampes gravees par Madame la marquise de...Print: Book
'The description of his [the character Darius Clayhanger in Clayhanger] labours as a child, and his days in the workhouse, are not drawn from Enoch's own past, but largel...Arnold Bennett William ShawWhen I was a child, recollections from an old pott...Print: Book
Mary Berry, Journal, 30 June 1808: 'In the evening I read "Barillon's Letters" in Mr. Fox's Appendix.'Mary Berry BarillonLettersPrint: Book
Marginalia Many pencil sidelines in the Introduction. Donne, against l.52 "cf Good Friday" Herbert, The Collar "surrender to the will of God"; Aaron "old things a...Francis Robert Longworth-Dames Herbert J C GriersonMetaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the seventeenth cen...Print: Book
'I was very well pleased with having seen this entertainment [a marksmanship contest for the ladies of the Austrian court], and I do not know but it might make as good a ...Mary, Lady Wortley Montagu VirgilAeneidUnknown
'Headmistress takes Evensong in school because the church could not be blacked out. Instead of a sermon she read from books with a religious theme, e.g. "The Other Wise ...H.V. MortonIn the Steps of the MasterPrint: Book
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Fa...Mary Russell Mitford Casimir DelavigneLouis XIPrint: Book
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Fa...Mary Russell Mitford Casimir DelavigneMarino FalieroPrint: Book
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 28 November 1844: 'What works of Casimir Delavigne have you read? [...] I have read "Louis the Eleventh [sic]," "Marino Fa...Mary Russell Mitford Casimir DelavigneLes Enfants d'EdouardPrint: Book
Sunday 6 January 1935: 'We lunched with Maynard & Lydia [Keynes] [...] talked about [...] Wells -- [Maynard] had read his Au[tobiograph]y. Thought him a little squit [......John Maynard Keynes H. G. WellsExperiment in AutobiographyPrint: Book
'I have read "Ronald" with great care and much pleasure I think it is the most [italics] spirited [end italics] poem Scott ever wrote - He has availed himself of his part...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
'I confess I was pleased with ['The Lord of the Isles'] save the plot and augured good of it but I have heard very different breathings of late and some of these from hea...James Hogg Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
'A friend brought me in the last "Quarterly" which I looked at tho' but slightly as yet not being able. There are by far too little variety in it though I think some of t...James Hogg Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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