Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings Motley

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

	1850-1899 1900-1945	'The historical classics "came as a revelation"- Macaulay, J.R. Green, Gibbon, Motley's Dutch Republic, Prescott on Pe...	Jack Lawson	John Lothrop Motley	The Rise of the Dutch Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Barber John Paton remembered that the "Boys' Friend" "ran a serial which was an enormously exciting tale of Alba's op...	John Paton	John Lothrop Motley	The Rise of the Dutch Republic	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'We are reading Motley's last, - much surprised not to like it better. It is so diffuse and sinks so very low in its C...	Harriet Martineau	John Lothrop Motley	Causes of the Civil War in America [probably]
	1900-1945	MS annotations and marginal marks incl. v.1 p.503, in reply to the author's comment "we must now throw a glance to the...	George Otto Trevelyan	John Lothrop Motley	History of the United Netherlands	Print: Book
	1900-1945	MS notes and marginal marks throughout the book, in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan. Dates of reading include "S...	George Otto Trevelyan	John Lothrop Motley	The rise of the Dutch republic: a history	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'He [Tennyson] had been reading Motley's Dutch Republic.'	Alfred Tennyson	Motley	Dutch Republic	Print: Book