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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 21 April 1808: 'In the evening began reading Ashe's "Travels in America", in the north-western settlements, behind the United States.'Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 22 April 1808: 'In the evening Ashe's Travels [in America] again. They are, I think, very entertaining in spite of an abominable style, which aims a...Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 24 April 1808: 'In the evening, after dinner, I read aloud the sketch of my preface [to the letters of Mme du Deffand], and finished the evening with...Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 27 April 1808: 'In the evening Mrs. D[?amer], and [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].'Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 1 May 1808: 'In the evening, [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America] as usual.'Mary Berry Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 6 May 1808: 'Mrs D[?amer] and I finished [Thomas] Ashe's Travels [in America].'Mary Berry and [?Anne Damer]Thomas AsheTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read St. Leon aloud. Read Davis's travels in america - Tacitus'Mary Shelley John DavisTravels in AmericaPrint: Book
1900-1945'[King] likes Doughty, Arabian Knights [sic], Froissart.'Cecil King Charles Montagu DoughtyTravels in Arabia DesertaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Up at 7. Most of the day reading Doughty and trying with Gertrude Bell to settle route after Buraida.[...] Continued to glean for a Najd glossary from Doughty's Index ti...Ronald Storrs Charles M. DoughtyTravels in Arabia DesertaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Came to Damascus and read "Arabia Deserta" all the way. Still autumn in the Beqa', leaves brown and gold, gold and green on the poplars.' Gertrude Bell Charles M. DoughtyTravels in Arabia DesertaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Abraham ParsonsTravels in Asia and AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'When at home I usually retired to my garret, where I employed myself in either reading or working... In reading I usually sat in the Oriental, or, to use a less pompous ...Thomas Carter John SmithTravels in Canada and the United StatesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Extracts from [John] Barrow's Travels in China appear in the Wordsworth Commonplace Book [Dove Cottage MS 26] ...'Wordsworth FamilyJohn BarrowTravels in ChinaPrint: Book
1700-1799"'Within the last month I have read Tristram Shandy, Brydone's Sicily and Malta, and Moore's Travels in France,' D[orothy] W[ordsworth] wrote in March 1796."Dorothy Wordsworth John MooreTravels in FrancePrint: Book
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1800-1849		The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Young's, and from me you will hear only his praises. I...Earl of Lonsdale Arthur YoungTravels in France and Italy During the Years 1787,...Print: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 30 January 1934: 'Yesterday I went to Shapland about my watch bracelet [...] came back; sat; talked; Julian [Bell, nephew] came to tea; read Young;s French travel...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and...Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and...Print: Book
1900-1945Wednesday 14 February: '10 days recumbent [with headache], sleeping, dreaming, dipping into oh dear how many different books, how capriciously: Thackeray, Young's travels...Virginia Woolf Arthur YoungTravels in France during the Years 1787, 1788, and...Print: Book
1800-1849Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to the library today...He is an arrant republican in poli...Anne Lister Colonel Francis HallTravels in France in 1818Print: Newspaper
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford AnachaisesTravels in GreecePrint: Book


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