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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey French without a MasterPrint: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey [English history]Print: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey [Roman history]Print: Book
1800-1849"And now, for the first time in his life, he met with plenty of books, reading all that came in his way, from 'Lloyd's Penny Times' to Cobbett's Works, 'French without a ...Gerald Massey [Grecian history]Print: Book
1850-1899"And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle th...Leslie Stephen W E GladstoneRitualism and RitualPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle th...Leslie Stephen Matthew ArnoldReview of Objections to Literature and DogmaPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That the Muse visits his Slumbers & awakes & governs his So...William Blake John MiltonParadise Lost, vii, 29-30Print: Book
1700-1799"And tho' I call them Mine, I know that they are not Mine, being of the Same opinion with Milton when he says 'That the Muse visits his Slumbers & awakes & governs his So...William Blake Numbers 24:13Print: Book
1850-1899"Angela Brazil ... was considerably disturbed by the pictures in [Foxe's Book of Martyrs]..."Angela Brazil John FoxeBook of Martyrs
1850-1899
1900-1945		"Annabel Huth Jackson ... [became] a 'convinced feminist' after reading an article on the white slave trade in th War Cry when she was thirteen ..."Annabel Huth Jackson The War CryPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		"Another favourite of his was Hogg, whose ballad of "Bonny Kilmery" he had by heart."Charles Robert Maturin James HoggBonny KilmenyPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		"Anthony Errington, a Tyneside wagonway wright, sat down in 1823 to write out his life history ... After brief accounts of his parents and his infancy, he turned to his e...Anthony Errington  Print: tombstone epitaphs
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell theological worksPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell early Methodist magazinesPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell cookery booksPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell crime/horror fictionPrint: Book
1850-1899"As ... [Hannah Mitchell's] love of books became known locally: 'I made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed, which led to my reading some curious and unsui...Hannah Mitchell Horace WalpoleThe Castle of Otranto: A Gothic StoryPrint: Book
1850-1899"As a teenager ... [Holbrook Jackson] had been transported from Merseyside to the South Sea Islands. The vessel that bore him was imagination in the form of a 'musty cop...Holbrook Jackson Herman MelvilleTypeePrint: Book
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The Black DwarfPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849"As a young man ... [James Watson] moved to Leeds, and was immediately immersed in the clandestine world of the unstamped press: "'It was in the autumn of 1818 that I fi...Members of Radical Reform group The RepublicanPrint: Serial / periodical


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