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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'W[ordsworth] copied from ... [Thomas Wilkinson's MS "Tours of the British Mountains"] the passage which had inspired the Solitary Reaper [about a female reaper singing i...William Wordsworth Thomas WilkinsonTours to the British MountainsManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Engine tenter, age twenty-seven...Often attends operas....questionaire respondent Edward CarpenterTowards DemocracyPrint: Book
1900-1945'He did not mention that as a prisoner he himself had written an autobiography, of which H. N. Brailsford was to comment in the "New Statesman" the following May: "This b...Henry Noel Brailsford Jawaharlal NehruTowards FreedomPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1943, in diary for 1943]: 'The Farthing Spinster; Guy Mannering; Whereas I was Blind; And So to Bath; The Story of San Michele; Attack Alarm; The ...Hilary Spalding Harrison AinsworthTower of London, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, 'Your Life in 15 Century' Mrs J. R. Green.'Virginia Woolf Alice Stopford GreenTown Life in the Fifteenth CenturyPrint: Book
1900-1945Thursday 19 August 1920: 'Yesterday [...] read [Sophocles'] Trachiniae with comparative ease -- always comparative -- oh dear me!'Virginia Woolf Sophocles TrachiniaePrint: Book
'We had a quiet comfortable meeting at Mr. Dilly's; nobody there but ourselves. Mr. Dilly mentioned somebody having wished that Milton's "Tractate on Education" should be...Samuel Johnson John MiltonTractate: Of Education Print: Pamphlet
1500-1599'Luca Gaurico's "Tractatus Astrologicus" is a work giving horoscopes and brief descriptions of noted persons and of city-states and towns, each being illustrated by an as...Gabriel Harvey Luca GauricoTractatus AstrologicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'write the trans. of Spinoza from S's dictation; translate Cupid & Psyche - read Tacitus and Rousseau's confessions'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Baruch de SpinozaTractatus Theologico-politicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]'Mary Shelley Baruch SpinozaTractatus Theologico-politicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Translate S...a [Spinoza] with Shelley - He read [sic] Sophocles and the Bible - & King John & First Part Henry IV aloud. - Finish 31st book of Livy - Finish Proverbs, E...Mary and Percy ShelleyBaruch SpinozaTractatus Theologico-politicusPrint: Book
1800-1849'Last summer, being in Taunton, at the house of Mr J Smith, brother to my first wife, his son brought in a parcel of those religious tracts which are published by the Rel...James Lackington anon [Religious Tract Society]tractsPrint: Pamphlet, tracts
1700-1799?? for a long time I read ten chapters in the Bible every day, I also read and learned many hymns, and as soon as I could procure some of Mr Wesley?s Tracts, Sermons etc....James Lackington WesleyTracts and SermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East ...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] Tracts by Warburton and "A ...Mountstuart Elphinstone [William] WarburtonTracts by Warburton and 'A Warburtonian'Print: Book
1850-1899J. H. Ewing Diary entry, Aug 15 1869: 'Tracts for the Times'Juliana Horatia Ewing Rowland Elliott [?]Tracts for the TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had seen some numbers of "Tracts for the Times" lying on the counter in a bookseller's shop in Newport, and they had excited my curiosity, and led to inquiry; and, as ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell John Henry NewmanTracts for the TimesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Monday October [...] 31st. [...] A note from Mr. Baxter with Lingard's [...] Reply to the attacks of Shute, Bishop of Durham against the Catholic Religion which I read...Claire Clairmont John LingardTracts Occasioned by the Publication of a Charge D...Print: Book
1800-1849I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinted since 1806, or 1808, but the reasoning not out of ...Anne Lister William SpenceTracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain IndepePrint: Book
1900-1945'In bed all day. Bob Craig and Janie Clark in afternoon. Bob gave me "Traffics and Discoveries". Leg much better. Bailleul has fallen. Damn and Blast it!'Guy Mainwaring Knocker Rudyard KiplingTraffics and DiscoveriesPrint: BookUnknown
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 14 January 1821: 'Turned over Seneca's tragedies. Wrote the opening lines of the intended tragedy of Sardanapalus.'George Gordon Lord Byron SenecatragediesPrint: Book


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