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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'I have read part of Townson but I think I shall read no more as it consists of nothing [else?] but mineralogical & botanical remarks.'Joseph Hunter Robert TownsonTravels in Hungary with a Short Account of ViennaPrint: Book
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen Sir George Steuart MackenzieTravels in IcelandPrint: 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 Edward ParkinsonTravels in North AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am reading Hall's book, but will read it through before I say a word about it, for I find my opinion changes so much between the first and third volume of a book'.Sydney Smith Basil HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: Book
1800-1849'Have you read Hall's America? If you have, I hope you dislike it as much as I do. It is amusing but very unjust and unfair. It will make his fortune at the Admiralty. Th...Sydney Smith Basil HallTravels in North America 1827-8Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Pietro della ValleTravels in Persia Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man...Thomas Carlyle William CoxeTravels in Poland, Russia, Sweden and DenmarkPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (x, }, |) plus occasional comments, either single words or short notes eg: p. 74 after the text 'His wit seemed to be incorporated with his v...George Pitts James HallTravels in Scotland, by an unusual route: with a t...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have been reading little except Coxe's travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia &c, Humes history together with part of Smollet[t], Gibbon &c. Coxe is an intelligent man...Thomas Carlyle William CoxeTravels in SwitzerlandPrint: Book
1800-1849'written in a bad American style, turgid, & obscurely fractious, but interesting from its matter'G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth Thomas FarnhamTravels in the Great Western PrairiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr. Park's "Travels in Africa". I also read Mr. Colquhoun's la...Thomas Carter Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of AfricaPrint: Book
1800-1849'A Scottish flax dresser gained his "first or incipient idea of localities and distances" when he was assigned to read aloud at work from Anson, Cook, Bruce and Mungo Par..."Jacques", a flax dresser Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads Mungo Parks travels loud'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read and finish Mungo Parks travels - they are very interesting & if the man was not so prejudiced they would be a thousand times more so. but those Institutions must al...Mary Godwin Mungo ParkTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo...Print: Book
1800-1849'Walk out with Shelley. he reads Suetonius all day'.Percy Bysshe Shelley SuetoniusTravels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Perfo...Print: Book
1800-1849'I recommend you to read Hall, Palmer, Fearon and Bradburys Travels in America, particularly "Fearon". There is nothing to me so curious and intersting as the rapidity wi...Sydney Smith John BradburyTravels in the Interior of America in the years 18...Print: Book
1800-1849'When I returned to Annan, it occurred to me, that it would be proper to see what was become of my Hall discourses. It occurred to me, much about the same time, that it w...Thomas Carlyle George Stewart MackenzieTravels in the Island of Iceland during the summer...Print: Book
1600-1699
1700-1799		[List of books read to Sir Thomas Browne by Elizabeth Lyttelton]. Headed in commonplace book: 'The books which my daughter Elizabeth hath read unto me at nights till she ...Elizabeth Lyttelton Thomas GageTravels in the New WorldPrint: Book
1800-1849'I always tell you all the books worth notice that I read, and I rather counsel you to read Jacob's "Spain", a book with some good sense in it, and not unentertaining; al...Sydney Smith William JacobTravels in the South of SpainPrint: Book


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