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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'On looking over Mr Lumb's list of new freeholders in this neighbourhood, I was sorry to find that half a dozen whose n...William Wordsworth [list of new freeholders]Unknown
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'I have seen the Article in the E[dinburgh]. R[eview]. [re Charities Question] - it is as your Lordship describes, feeb...William Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 21 October 1792: 'Now I am upon the republic system I must tell you that Bristol seems preparing for it. A pamphlet propose...Robert Southey The Reply of the Delegates of the Several Parishes...Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. It promises well but a weekly London paper crowded w...William Wordsworth Guardian, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, [mid December 1819]: 'The Guardian a loyal Newspaper has found its way here. It promises well but a weekly London paper crowded w...William Wordsworth advertisementsPrint: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Viscount Lowther, 31 December 1819: 'In the last Kendal Chronicle appeared a most malignant misrepresentation of the words you used upon the searchi...William Wordsworth Kendal Chronicle, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 2 February 1820 (following remarks on death of George III): 'The same Paper, the Times, which has brought us this Intelligence, has a...Wordsworth Family Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 2 February 1820 (following remarks on death of George III): 'The same Paper, the Times, which has brought us this Intelligence, has a...Wordsworth Family [advertisement]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes church service attended in London in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: 'Tom and I went with [Mr Johnson] last Sunday but one to the op...William Johnson prayersPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes church service attended in London in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: 'Tom and I went with [Mr Johnson] last Sunday but one to the op...William Coleridge Communion ServicePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth describes daily routine during stay at her brother Christopher's London residence in letter to Mary Hutchinson, 5 May 1820: ' ... he sits with me till ...Christopher Wordsworth prayersUnknown
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas Hutchinson, 14 December 1820: 'The news from Hayti [ie Haiti, where revolution had taken place] has grieved Mr Clarkson [friend of King Henri...Thomas Clarkson [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849"[Mark L.] Reed [in Wordsworth: The Chronology of the Middle Years, 1975] judges that [S. T.] C[oleridge] copied this poem ['An unfortunate Mother to her infant at her Br...Samuel Taylor Coleridge An unfortunate Mother to the infant at her BreastUnknown
1800-1849' ... a summary of the contents of the Proceedings was published in the Courier on 3 Jan. 1809, and read by W[ordsworth].'William Wordsworth [summary of Proceedings upon the Inquiry relative ...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849De Quincey to Southey, 31 May 1811: 'We received the Gazette last night, and were a little disappointed by it,: Wordsworth indeed was greatly mortified ... 'William Wordsworth Gazette, ThePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Wordsworth to Hazlitt, 5 March 1804: "I was sorry to see from the Papers that your Friend poor Fawcett was dead; not so much that he was dead but to think of the manner i...William Wordsworth [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'In his isolated rural community Gregory never imagined that he might aspire to a higher profession. Now he returned to his old school for evening classes in chemistry, a...George Gregory [book of world history]Print: Book
1850-1899'[Chester Armstrong's] political consciousness was awakened when his father, a self-help Radical, read aloud the weekly paper, which brought home the horrors of the Afgha... [weekly paper]Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong British WeeklyPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to Shakespeare, Burns, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron...Chester Armstrong [Marxist Economics]Print: Book


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