Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Hooker

√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799	'She rejects even "good" books if she finds them tedious or ling-winded, finding unreadable Hooker's "extremely good" ...	Elizabeth Carter	Hooker	Laws of ecclesiastical polity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	[Marginalia]	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Richard Hooker	Works	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'At night fell to read in Hookers "Ecclesiastical policy" which Mr Moore did give me last Wednesday, very handsomely b...	Samuel Pepys	Richard Hooker	Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Read the 1st Book of Hooker's "Ecclesiastical Polity"...'	Thomas Green	Edward Hooker	Of the laws of ecclesiastical politie	Print: Book
	1600-1699	'So home to look on my new books that I have lately bought; and then to supper and to bed.' Pepys records the follo...	Samuel Pepys	Richard Hooker	Works... in eight books of ecclesiastical polity	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'At this period [aged thirteen] I perused all modern authors who had any claim to superior merit & poetic excellence...	Elizabeth Barrett	Hooker	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Westwood, 26 December 1843: 'Although I have read rather widely the divinity of the Gre...	Elizabeth Barrett	Hooker	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Read some of Spencer in the morning, and learned it, then some of Hooker.'	John Ruskin	Richard Hooker [?]	[unknown]	Print: Book