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Listing for Author:
Herbert
Spencer
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Century of Experience
Evidence
Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group
Author of Text
Title of Text
Form of Text
1850-1899
'The [1890s] dockers' leader Ben Tillett went hungry in order to buy books ... [and] thereby struggled through the lit...
Ben Tillett
Herbert Spencer
[unknown]
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'Arnold Bennett, when reading [Herbert] Spencer's posthumously published Autobiography (1904), found the account "disa...
Arnold Bennett
Herbert Spencer
Autobiography
Print
: Book
1900-1945
In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley...
Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell)
Herbert Spencer
The Study of Sociology
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out-of-work men wanted practic...
Herbert Hodge
Herbert Spencer
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'After a miserable Catholic school education...periodic unemployment allowed [Joseph Toole] to study in the Manchester...
Joseph Toole
Herbert Spencer
[unknown]
Print
: Book
1850-1899
'Read Schrader. Spinoza. Leader and Athenaeum. "Genesis of Science". Gibbon.'
George Eliot [pseud.]
Herbert Spencer
The Genesis of Science
Print
: Book
Manuscript
: Unknown
1850-1899
'I have read rapidly through Max Muller's History of Sanskrit Literature and am now reading Lecky's "History of Morals...
George Eliot [pseud]
Herbert Spencer
[probably] Principles of Psychology, The
Print
: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
'Read Spencer's Psychology'
George Eliot [pseud]
Herbert Spencer
Principles of Psychology
Print
: Book
Manuscript
: Unknown
1850-1899
'Having finished Spencer's Sociology we began Max MUller's Lectures on the Science of Language'.
George Eliot and John Cross
Herbert Spencer
Principles of Sociology
Print
: Book
1850-1899
'I am reading Herbert Spencer just now very hard.'
Robert Louis Stevenson
Herbert Spencer
unknown
Print
: Book
1850-1899
'Part III is 'the reconciliation', in Spencer's phrase, - a mean term between I and II, a minimistic retrospect on both.'
Robert Louis Stevenson
Herbert Spencer
A System of Synthetic Philosophy
Print
: Book
1900-1945
'[Letter from Mrs Ward to the Society of Authors when that body recommended Herbert Spencer not George Meredith for th...
Mary Augusta Ward
Herbert Spencer
Print
: Book
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)