√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelings and with the dark and terrible pictures which he ... Joseph Barker Isaac Newton Print : Book1800-1849 'Though one former ploughboy extolled Shakespeare for possessing a deep sense of the pure morality of the Gospel" and quoted from him on most of the 440 pages of his auto... Samuel Westcott Tilke William Shakespeare Print : Book1800-1849 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Ch... Thomas Frost Samuel Taylor Coleridge [poetry] Print : Book1800-1849 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost... to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Ch... Thomas Frost Percy Bysshe Shelley [poetry] Print : Book1800-1849 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chart... Thomas Frost Joseph Addison The Spectator Print : Book, Serial / periodical, periodical bound into books1800-1849 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chart... Thomas Frost Charles de Secondat, Baron Montesquieu The Persian Letters Print : Book1800-1849 'The propaganda of Robert Owen alone did not convert printer Thomas Frost to socialism: "The poetry of Coleridge and Shelley was stirring within me and making me 'a Chart... Thomas Frost Thomas Second Lord Lyttelton Letters Print : Book1800-1849 "in spring 1800 ... [Heron] provided one of the first entries in [Wordsworth's] Commonplace Book ..." William Wordsworth Robert Heron Observations Made in a Journey through the Western... Print : Book1800-1849 'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li... Robert Lowery [history] Print : Book1800-1849 'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li... Robert Lowery [poetry] Print : Book1800-1849 'indiscriminate reading brought... liberation to Chartist Robert Lowery. A prolonged illness gave him the opportunity to work through a bookseller's entire circulating li... Robert Lowery [imaginative literature] Print : Book1700-1799 'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings whi... Samuel Bamford John Milton L'Allegro Print : Book1700-1799 'As a Manchester warehouse porter, Samuel Bamford found the same richness in Milton: "His 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso' were but expressions of thoughts and feelings whi... Samuel Bamford John Milton Il Penseroso Print : Book1700-1799 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages, and ultimately Willia... Samuel Bamford Homer Print : Book1800-1849 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages, and ultimately Willia... Samuel Bamford Virgil Print : Book1700-1799 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages, and ultimately Willia... Samuel Bamford William Shakespeare Print : Book1700-1799 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages, and ultimately Willia... Samuel Bamford [the great poets] Print : Unknown1700-1799 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, Willi... Samuel Bamford [classic histories] Print : Book1700-1799 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, Willi... Samuel Bamford [voyages] Print : Book1700-1799 'Milton established a habit of serious reading, which brought Bamford to Homer, Virgil, Shakespeare, the great poets, classic histories and voyages and, ultimately, Willi... Samuel Bamford William Cobbett Political Register Print : Book1800-1849 '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th... Mary Smith William Shakespeare Print : Book1800-1849 '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th... Mary Smith John Dryden Print : Book1800-1849 '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th... Mary Smith Oliver Goldsmith Print : Book1800-1849 '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th... Mary Smith Joseph Addison Print : Book1800-1849 '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th... Mary Smith Richard Steele Print : Book1800-1849 '[Mary Smith] found emancipation in Shakespeare, Dryden, Goldsmith and other standard male authors, whom she extolled for their universality: "These authors wrote from th... Mary Smith Alexander Pope 'Ode on Solitude' Print : Book1800-1849 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu... Mary Smith George Payne Elements of Mental and Moral Science Print : Book1800-1849 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu... Mary Smith Thomas Brown Moral Philosophy Print : Book1800-1849 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu... Mary Smith Richard Whateley Logic Print : Book1800-1849 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu... Mary Smith Ralph Waldo Emerson Print : Book1800-1849 'by age twenty [Mary Smith] had read and understood George Payne's Elements of Mental and Moral Science, Thomas Brown's Moral Philosophy, and Richard Whateley's Logic. Bu... Mary Smith Thomas Carlyle Print : Book1800-1849 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. Mary Smith Johann Gottlieb Fichte Print : Book1800-1849 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. Mary Smith Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Print : Book1800-1849 'like the great man [Carlyle] himself, [Mary Smith] studied Fichte, Schiller and Goethe'. Mary Smith Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Print : Book1800-1849 Witness statement in trial of Sarah Evans for murder
Thomas Aris: "The first thing I heard of the child being drowned, I saw it in the paper, saying, the child of Sara... Thomas Aris Daily Advertiser Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for housebreaking/receiving stolen goods:
Thomas Davies: "I think it was in the middle of November I saw it in the 'Morning Advertiser' -I n... Thomas Davies Morning Advertiser Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Joseph Dobree: "I am a pawnbroker: I took in this property of a witness who is here, Mary Brown, on the 5th of May; the next day ... Joseph Dobree Print : Handbill1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Mary Flint: "...in consequence of a handbill that I received I had the prisoners taken into custody..." Mary Flint Print : Handbill1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for burglary/ receiving stolen goods:
Henry Ewer: "I am a shopman to Mr Dobree, Oxford-street... I found the watch answered to the descripti... Henry Ewer Print : Handbill1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for burglary:
James Gideon: "On the 29th of October, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, the prisoner Chord came and offered a sm... James Gideon Print : Handbill1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for receiving stolen goods:
Robert Daniel Liddell: "I am in Mr Marshall's employ. On the 10th of March he left me to bring these boxes home ... Robert Daniel Liddell Print : Handbill, playbill1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel:
William Smith: "I saw [the prisoner] serving in the shop and bought this book of him... I ... William Smith Temple of Reason Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for publishing a blasphemous and seditious libel:
Prisoner questions witness Raven
Q: Pray, did you read no.17 of 'The Republican' before y... Henry Baldwin Raven The Republican Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Rebecca Johnson: "I began to wash a few things after dinner, and soon after she came -we dine at one o'clock; we have a newspaper... Anthony Whitewood Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
John Osrorne: "I know Wood, he came to my house on the 29th of July... I then heard he was in trouble, and in reading the... John Osrorne Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for housebreaking:
Elizabeth Baglee: "I read in a newspaper of the robbery, a day or two after the robbery, and from the description it gave... Elizabeth Baglee Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for robbery:
James John Conolly: "I am a policeman, I apprehended the prisoner Wright on Monday afternoon, about four o'clock (the afternoon... Robert Wright Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
James Collins: "I was sitting near the bar reading the newspaper, when I turned my head, and saw the prisoner come out of the roo... James Collins Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
James John Streath: "On the 18th of October last this man watched me in the Strand. He was looking at a playbill... Thi... Frederick Constable Print : Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, Playbill1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for pickpocketing:
John Everhard Berckemyer: "On the 11th of October, about ten o'clock, I stopped in Newgate-street, to read a playbill;...... John Everard Berckemyer Print : Advertisement, Handbill, Poster, playbill1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for assault:
Charles Bradfield: "In the forenoon of Saturday, 4th of October, I went into the Bull public-house to have my breakfast -I was ... Charles Bradfield Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for highway robbery:
Q: "How came Mrs Carey to read the almanack?"
Norris: "She was reading it, looking over it to see what day of the mont... Carey Print : Broadsheet, Poster, Almanack1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
William Olley: "On Thursday the 7th of May, about ten in the morning, I was sitting at the top of the shop reading a newspaper, o... William Olley Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Lench: "On Saturday the 7th of May, between twelve and one, I was reading the newspaper at the public house, the Blue Bell..... John Lench Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Watts: "...there was a gentleman in the house reading a newspaper and I shewed it [the case] to him..." Anon Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for burglary:
Robinson: "I was reading the newspaper..." James Robinson Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Witness statement in trial for theft:
John Wiffin: "On the 1st of August, I was reading the newspaper at the Northumberland Arms, Grafton-street, ...during the time I ... John Wiffin Print : Newspaper1800-1849 prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Thomas Vaughan: "I got up in the morning to breakfast along with the man's wife. I never went out of the parlour, only through... Thomas Vaughan Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for forgery:
Robert Eddington: "we occasionally read the newspaper, I suppose we sat for half an hour..." Robert Eddington Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for theft:
Charles Fenn: "I went into Mrs Bow's public house, the sign of the Wheat-sheaf, Holywell-street. I put my bankers book on the tab... Charles Fenn Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for theft:
Mr Hanley: "About eleven o'clock it rained very hard. I stopped at the public house, reading the newspaper..." Hanley Print : Newspaper1800-1849 prisoner's statement in trial for theft:
Brown: "I was going to the West India Dock, I had a newspaper in my handing reading of it, and when I got into the court I was... William Brown Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for theft:
Samuel Leigh: "I lodge at the Elephant and Castle, Holborn. On the 12th of October I was sitting in the tap-room breakfasting...a... Samuel Leigh Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
William de Roach: "In the middle of August I was in Pollard's Parlour, Pollard was reading the newspaper,... John Pollard Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for theft/ receiving stolen goods:
William de Roach: "Then the week following Mrs Rippen came down several times and asked what such stones ... John Pollard Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for theft:
William Pocock: "On the night of the 8th of January I was at the King's Head... I took up the newspaper, and while I was reading ... William Pocock Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for murder:
Henry Bracken: "I caused hom to be apprehended. I read the description of him in the newspaper and caused him to be taken up" Henry Bracken Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for deception/forgery:
John Dougan: "I was going to the West Indies, in pursuance of that my business. I had occasion for an interpreter; I ... Anthony McKenrott Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for theft:
Michael McNally: "Jack brought a newspaper to me, and read a statement that Cooper was apprehended upon this, and he said that Me... John (Jack) Winter Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for burglary:
Ralph Hope: "[Spencer] was apprehended and committed for examination. In about a fortnight after, I saw an advertisement in th... Ralph Hope Morning Advertiser Print : Newspaper1800-1849 witness statement in trial for theft:
George Nash: "I was never in the house before... I only staid while I drank my beer -I looked at the newspaper. I was not there a... George Nash Print : Newspaper1800-1849 "My Brother has read Mr Price's Book on the picturesque ... " William Wordsworth Uvedale Price Essay on the Picturesque Print : Book1800-1849 'Mary has been reading to us (I stopped writing to hear it) the account of the death of Mr. Pitt - happy for him that he had died at this time!' Mary Wordsworth Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.' Dorothy Wordsworth Philip Massinger Bashful Lover, The Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read only one play, the Bashful Lover and one or two of Plutarch's lives since we wrote last.' Dorothy Wordsworth Plutarch Lives Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth describes receiving only 'two last volumes' of 'Mr Clarkson's Book': 'we may yet have to wait a fortnight or three weeks for the other [received by Wil... Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas Clarkson Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a view of t... Print : Book1800-1849 'I have just begun to read Mr Knight's Book, which you were very kind in sending.' Dorothy Wordsworth Richard Payne Knight An Analytical Enquiry into the Principles of Taste Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth describes to Lady Beaumont how she received a letter from her: 'A few minutes before your letter arrived, William [Wordsworth] had set forward with his... William and Dorothy Wordsworth Lady Beaumont [letter] Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'W[illia]m [Wordsworth] has read most of Mr Clarkson's book and has been much pleased, but he complains of the second volume being exceedingly disfigured by perpetual use... William Wordsworth Thomas Clarkson Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of t... Print : Book1800-1849 William Wordsworth: 'I read in the papers with great pain the account of Mungo Park's disastrous end ... ' William Wordsworth [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I have been reading Fox's Book of Martyrs - not straight forward; but choice parts, it is a very interesting Book The account of the deaths of Ridley and Latimer (espec... Dorothy Wordsworth John Fox Book of Martyrs Print : Book1800-1849 'I am now reading Gray's life and letters.' Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas Gray Life and Letters Print : Book1800-1849 'I hope the execrable Murderer will prove to have been an Irishman; the Scotch much to their honour have hitherto been little tainted by that detestable crime. I had rea... William Wordsworth [newspapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I often think of the happy evening when, by your fireside, my Brother read to us the first book of the Paradise lost ... ' William Wordsworth John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1800-1849 'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them. In the first place my Brother and Si... William Wordsworth Hutchinson Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson Print : Book1800-1849 'We received the Books a week ago ... We have all already to thank you for a great deal of delight which we have received from them ... I have not quite finished the anec... Dorothy Wordsworth D. Thiebault Anecdotes of Frederick II Print : Book1800-1849 'We travelled ... to Nottingham, where we walked about and viewed the Castle and town, an interesting old place, and particularly so to us at that time having just read M... Wordsworth Family Lucy Hutchinson Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson Print : Book1800-1849 'I cannot express how much pleasure my Brother has already received from Dr. Whitaker's Books, though they have been only two days in his possession - Almost the whole ti... William Wordsworth Thomas Dunham Whitaker History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, ... Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: 'You had been strangely misinformed of the nature of the Edinburgh Review of William [Wordsworth]'s poems [ie his Poems in Two V... Dorothy Wordsworth Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's] last Review [of Wordsworth's Poems on Two Volumes, ... William Wordsworth Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your quondam Friend's, Dr. Symmonds' life of Milton, on some future occasion I will tell you what I think of it.' William Wordsworth Symmonds Life of John Milton, The Print : Book1800-1849 'In compliance with frequent entreaties I took the MSS [of The White Doe of Rylstone] to [Charles] Lamb's to read it, or part of it, one evening. There unluckily I found... William Wordsworth William Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone, The Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'I have read your sermon [Human Laws best supported by the Gospel] (which I lately received from Longman) with much pleasure. I o... William Wordsworth Francis Wrangham Human Laws best supported by the Gospel Unknown 1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'Thank you for Marmion which I have read with lively pleasure ... ' William Wordsworth Walter Scott Marmion Unknown 1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'I had a peep at your edition of Dryden - I had not time to read the Notes which would have interested me most, namely the historical ... William Wordsworth John Dryden unknown Print : Book1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a most interesting work and entitles him to the fervent ... William Wordsworth Andrew Bell Experiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madr... Print : Book1800-1849 ' ... I have lately read Dr. Whitaker's history of ... Whalley both with profit and pleasure.' William Wordsworth Thomas Dunham Whitaker History of the Original Parish of Whalley, and Hon... Print : Book1800-1849 William Wordsworth suggests to Francis Wrangham that he attempt to write a local history: 'I am induced to mention it from a belief that you are admirably qualified for s... William Wordsworth Grave The History and Antiquities of Cleveland in the No... Print : Book1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Your sermon [The Gospel best promulgated by National Schools] did not reach me till the night before last. I believe we all have... Wordsworth Family Francis Wrangham Gospel best promulgated in National Schools, The Unknown 1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson on 'Thursday Evening December 8th [1808]': 'Mr. De Quincey ... is beside me, quietly turning over the leaves of a Greek bo... Thomas De Quincey unknown [Greek book] Print : BookUnknown1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, regarding editing of The Convention of Cintra: 'I have alluded to the blasphemous address to Buonaparte made by some Italian depu... William Wordsworth and Thomas De Quincey [Italian deputies] Anon [address to Buonaparte] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those... Dorothy Wordsworth Don Pedro Cevallos Exposition of the Arts and Machinations which led ... Print : Book1800-1849 'I have read Cevallos; also I have read Miss Smith's Translation of Klopstock's and Mrs. K's letters [goes on to express preference for Mrs Klopstock's letters over those... Dorothy Wordsworth unknown Memoir of Frederick and Margaret Klopstock Print : Book1800-1849 'I have seen a hint in one of the Papers about some letters of [General Sir] David Baird to the same tune as [Sir John] Moore's [about the Peninsular Campaign].' William Wordsworth unknown [newpapers] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I ... found Miss [Sara] Hutchinson reading Coleridge's Christabel to Johnny [Wordsworth] - She was tired, so I read the greater part of it: he was excessively interested... Sara Hutchinson and Dorothy Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel Unknown 1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth reflects on prospect that her brother William might turn to newspaper journalism for a living: 'This reminds me of the last Edinburgh Review which I sa... Dorothy Wordsworth Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of whi... William Wordsworth William Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone, The Print : Serial / periodicalUnknown1800-1849 'Mr. Wilson came to us on Saturday morning and stayed till Sunday afternoon - William [Wordsworth] read the White Doe; and Coleridge's Christabel to him, with both of whi... William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Christabel Unknown 1800-1849 'I have just been reading an old Magazine where I find that Benjamin Flower was fined ?100 and imprisoned in Newgate four months ... for a libel, as it was termed, upon t... William Wordsworth unknown [magazine] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who wa... Edward Fitzgerald Arthur Penryn Stanley Life of Thomas Arnold D.D, Headmaster of Rugby Print : Book1800-1849 As I have no people to tell you of, so have I very few books, and know nothing of what is stirring in the literary world. I have read the Life of Arnold of Rugby, who wa... Edward Fitzgerald Edmund Burke Letters Print : Book1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia by the conversation in the street between Brutus and Cassius, in the First Act of Julius Caesar] "These two or three pages are worth the whole Fren... Thomas Babington Macaulay William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Print : Book1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Julius Caesar] "The last scenes are huddled up, and affect me less than Plutarch's narrative. But the working up of Brutus by Cassiu... Thomas Babington Macaulay William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Print : Book1800-1849 [Macaulay's marginalia by the lines "Let me have men about me that are fat/ Sleek headed men, and such as sleep o' nights" in Julius Caesar] "Plutarch's hint is admirably... Thomas Babington Macaulay William Shakespeare Julius Caesar Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite... G.W.M. Reynolds The Mysteries of London Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite... G.W.M. Reynolds The Mysteries of the Court of London Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews 'educated' costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite... anon Edward Lloyd [various titles published by Lloyd] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a sweet-stuff maker:
"One of the appliances of the sweet-stuff trade which I saw in the room of seller before mentioned was -Acts of Parliament... anon History of England Print : Book, Serial / periodical, uncut sheets1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a long-song seller: to sell ballads he not only cries their titles, but also sings the songs he has for sale in print.
"I sometimes begin with ... anon Print : Broadsheet, broadside ballads1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a running patterer -seller of broadsheets mainly dealing with crime and breaking news, sometimes also 'cocks' or fiction. Patterer's seeling techn... anon Print : Broadsheet1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a street author or street poet:
"I was very fond of reading poems in my youth, as soon as I could read and understand almost. Yes, very likely ... anon Oliver Goldsmith Edwin and Angelina Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'cheap John':
"From selling the printed songs, I imbibed a wish to learn to read, and, with the assistance of an old soldier, I soon acquired s... anon Print : Broadsheet, broadside ballads1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a blind female seller of 'small wares', the conversation turns to her younger son:
"My youngest son -he's now fourteen -is asthmatical; but he'... anon Print : Book, Broadsheet, Serial / periodical, penny book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t... anon Examiner Print : Broadsheet, Newspaper, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t... anon Daily News Print : Broadsheet, Newspaper1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a fancy cabinet-maker
"...one elderly and very intelligent man, a first rate artisan in skill, told me he had been so reduced in the world by t... anon various Print : Book, leaves from books used to wrap food purchases1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a regular scavager:
"No, I can't say I was sorry when I was forced to be idle that way, that I hadn't kept up my reading, nor tried to keep it ... Bill n/a [newspaper] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews an "aristocratic" crossing sweeper of Cavendish-square:
"There was the Earl of Gainsborough as I should like you to mention as well, please sir... Billy ? Print : Pamphlet, religious tract1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper:
"Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d... John Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper:
"Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d... Print : Book, Serial / periodical, novels1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper:
"Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d... G.W.M. Reynolds Reynolds's Miscellany Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper:
"When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t... Mary Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper:
"When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t... Mary ? The Bible Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper:
"When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t... Mary Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a female crossing sweeper:
"When my sight was better I used to be very partial to reading; but I can't see the print now, sir. I used to read t... Mary Print : Book, story books1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a juvenile crossing sweeper:
"I can read and write -oh, yes, I mean read and write well -read anything, even old English; and I write pretty fa... Jack London Journal Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"My daughter is eighteen and my son eleven; that is my boy, sir; he's reading the Family Friend just now. M... anon Family Friend Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford them no, for I have no wish to incur any extraneous exp... anon John Milton Paradise Lost Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford them no, for I have no wish to incur any extraneous exp... anon William Shakespeare Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a penny mouse-trap maker (cripple):
"I found books often lull my pain... I can't afford them no, for I have no wish to incur any extraneous exp... anon Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a street entertainer -a 'blind reader':
"I was not born blind, but lost my sight four years ago, in consequence of an aneurism... At last I tho... anon Gospel Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night some one would now and then read hymns, out of books they sold about the streets -I'm sure they wer... anon Print : Book, Pamphlet, religious tracts sold in streets containing hymns1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin, and all through that set. They were large... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Jack Sheppard Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a 'vagrant' of 18 years of age:
"Of a night ...we'd read stories about Jack Sheppard and Dick Turpin, and all through that set. They were large... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig... anon Watts Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig... anon John Wesley Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig... anon religious magazines Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig... anon Clark Lives of Pirates Print : Book, Serial / periodical, numbers collected into volume by library?1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig... anon Tales of Shipwrecks Print : Serial / periodical, probably penny numbers1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig... anon Family Herald Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Windsor Castle Print : Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 16, a vagrant and inmate of a casual ward of a London workhouse:
"My father had no books but religious books; they were all of a relig... anon William Harrison Ainsworth The Tower of London Print : Book, Serial / periodical, unsure if penny numbers or book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a boy of 17, an inmate of a London workhouse:
"I thought I should make my fortune in London -I'd heard it was such a grand place. I had read in... anon Print : Book, Serial / periodical, penny books1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister:
"I went to school to learn to write and cipher,... anon Bible Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister:
"...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake... anon Thomas Paine Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister:
"...We often had ministers to dinner and supper... anon Bible Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister:
"...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake... anon Volney Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister:
"...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake... anon George Jacob Holyoake Print : Book1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister:
"...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake... anon Edward Bulwer-Lytton Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew interviews a former London pickpocket, turned patterer; grew up in Shropshire, father a Wesleyan minister:
"...I have read Paine, and Valney, and Holyoake... anon Charles Dickens Print : Book, Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Jack Sheppard Print : Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume1800-1849 Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a... anon William Harrison Ainsworth Rookwood Print : Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume1800-1849 Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a... anon Claude du Val Print : Book, Serial / periodical, either in penny numbers or as volume1800-1849 Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a... anon Newgate Calendar Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a... anon Lives of the Robbers and Pirates Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Henry Mayhew holds meeting with a group of the lowest class of male juvenile thieves and vagabonds; during the meeting they tell him what they have read/ read regularly a... group of London thieves William Harrison Ainsworth Jack Sheppard Print : Book, Serial / periodical, either as penny numbers or in volume1800-1849 Transcription of William Wordsworh, "Fidelity" in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 2 March 1806 (first four stanzas as in 1807 edition, followed by furthe... Dorothy Wordsworth William Wordsworth Fidelity Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Version of Wordsworth's translation of Michaelangelo sonnet transcribed in letter to Sir George Beaumont, 8 Sept 1806. William Wordsworth Michaelangelo Buonarotti [sonnet] Unknown Transcription of William Wordsworth, "Star-Gazers" appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 15 November 1806. Dorothy Wordsworth William Wordsworth Star-Gazers Unknown Transcription of William Wordsworth, 'The Force of Prayer' appears in letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 18 October 1807. Dorothy Wordsworth William Wordsworth The Force of Prayer Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 11 May 1808: 'Would you believe it we too had dreams about Loch Kettrine when we saw the advertisement ... ' Dorothy Wordsworth unknown [advertisement] Print : Advertisement1800-1849 William Wordsworth to S.T. Coleridge, [5 May 1809]: 'Turning over an old Magazine three or four days ago I hit upon a paragraph stating that B. Flower had been fined ?100... William Wordsworth unknown [magazine] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Daniel Stuart, 'Sunday Night, June 4th [1809]':
'Nothing but vexation seems to attend me in this affair of the Pamphlet [The Convention of Cintra].... William Wordsworth William Wordsworth Convention of Cintra, The Print : Pamphlet1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Book Club to look at the Reviews ... have you seen the ... Dorothy Wordsworth various Edinburgh Review Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Book Club to look at the Reviews ... have you seen the ... Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming (extracts) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 18 Novembr [1809]: 'Sara [Hutchinson] has been kept almost constantly busy in transcribing ... For William [Wordsworth] she has ... Sara Hutchinson William Wordsworth Introduction to Select Views in Cumberland, Westmo... Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, [c.19 February 1810] (letter fragmentary): 'Have you seen my Brother Christopher's publication? Lives of eminent men connected with ... Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher Wordsworth Ecclesiastical Biography, or Lives of Eminent Men ... Print : BookManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 28 February [1810], on departure of Sara Hutchinson after four years with Wordsworths: 'Coleridge most of all will miss her, as she h... Sara Hutchinson Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Friend, A Literary, Moral and Political Weekly... Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Jane Marshall, 'Sunday night, 13th April [1810]': 'When I saw the advertisement [for house at Watermillock] in the papers I thought of you: but inst... Dorothy Wordsworth Print : Advertisement, NewspaperManuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth writes to Catherine Clarkson (12 November 1810) with description of three nights' stay during October (c.26-29) 1810 at Hackett (overlooking Langdale a... William Wordsworth John Milton Paradise Lost Unknown 1800-1849 Extract of letter from Thomas De Quincey to Mary Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson:
'"W. Scott's last novel, the... Thomas De Quincey Walter Scott The Lady of the Lake Unknown 1800-1849 Extract of letter from S. T. Coleridge to William Wordsworth, given in 30 December 1810 letter from Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson:
"'I amused myself a day o... Samuel Taylor Coleridge [a romance in the style of Ann Radcliffe] Print : Book1800-1849 '[William Lovett] read William Paley and other theologians in [the library of "The Liberals"].' William Lovett William Paley Print : Book1800-1849 'With little formal education, William Farish acquired basic literacy and political knowledge by reading newspapers to Newtown weavers. (Their favourite was the tri-weekl... William Farish Evening Mail Print : Newspaper1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Captain Charles Pasley, 28 March 1811: 'Now for your book. I had expected it with great impatience, and desired a Friend to send it down to me imme... William Wordsworth Captain Charles Pasley An Essay on the Military Policy and Institutions o... Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 12 May 1811: 'We have had no leisure for reading. I have not opened a Book except on a Sunday, and when the rest of the family ... Dorothy Wordsworth Philip Beaver African Memoranda: relative to an attempt to estab... Print : BookDorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 14 August 1811: 'I have read nothing since I wrote to you except bits here and there and the Novel of John Bunkle - but I am goi... Dorothy Wordsworth Thomas Amory The Life of John Buncle Print : Book1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read i... William Wordsworth ['a little poem upon the comet'] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Lady Beaumont, 20 November 1811: 'Do you see the Courier newspaper at Dunmow? I ask on account of a little poem upon the comet, which I have read i... William Wordsworth Courier, The Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 27 December 1811: 'To diminish the evil [of smoking chimneys] we have a constant fire in Sara's room where we are now sitting at... John Wordsworth Unknown 1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'John is certainly much quicker in reading than he was. He has read very hard and taken up the Book frequently hi... John Wordsworth Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'We have not yet been sufficiently settled to read any thing but Novels. Adeline Mowbray made us quite sick befo... Wordsworth Family Amelia Opie Adeline Mowbray or Mother and Daughter Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to William Wordsworth, 23 April 1812: 'Our new Master reads prayers to the Boys every night - John says he does not read so well as Mr Johnson; but ab... Unknown 1800-1849 William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, ['Early Spring 1812']: 'I see no new books except by the merest accident ... The only modern Books that I read are those of travel... William Wordsworth [travel books] Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'The Coleridges and Algernon [Montagu] were here yesterday and John and A had a happy day of play and rea... Algernon Montagu Unknown 1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] is reading a Story Book of Algernon [Montagu]'s at home and you would be surprised to hear how we... John Wordsworth [a story book] Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what he reads in the Grammar. Today we proposed to him ... John Wordsworth unknown History of England Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: '[John] appears to us very slow in comprehending what he reads in the Grammar. Today we proposed to him ... John Wordsworth [grammar] Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to William and Mary Wordsworth, 3 May [1812]: 'I am reading the Cid.' Dorothy Wordsworth Robert Southey Chronicle of the Cid, The Print : Book1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Mary Hutchinson, 1 February 1813: 'Willy [Wordsworth, the poet's son] is now beside me ... He has taken up a book, and there he reads fragments of a... Willy Wordsworth [nursery rhymes] Print : Book
