Reading Experience Database Browse Author Writings a Kempis Thomas

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

	1850-1899	Rose Macaulay had a 'craze' 'for the ascetic Thomas a Kempis's meditations and rule of conduct, On The Imitation of Ch...	Rose Macaulay	Thomas a Kempis	On The Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Gifford had read only some ballads, the black-letter romance Parismus and Parismenus, some odd loose magazines of his...	William Gifford	Thomas a Kempis	The Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am reading Thomas a Kempis.'	George Eliot (pseud)	Thomas a Kempis	Imitation of Christ, The (?)	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I spent the evening reading with Mama "the Imitation of Jesus Christ" until supper'	Elizabeth (Betsey) Wynne	Thomas a Kempis	The Imitation of Jesus Christ	Print: Unknown
	1700-1799	'[from the Johnsoniana imparted by Bennet Langton to Boswell in 1780] In the latter part of his life, in order to sati...	Samuel Johnson	Thomas a Kempis	Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'Johnson was very quiescent to-day [17th May 1784] . Perhaps too I was indolent. I find nothing more of him in my note...	James Boswell	Thomas a Kempis	Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Wilde loved to curl up with a book in bed. In one letter he mischievously described himself as "lying in bed... with ...	Oscar Wilde	Thomas a Kempis	The Imitation of Christ	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'When a boy [William Gifford] had read the Bible left to him by his mother, together with her "Imitatio Christi," and ...	William Gifford	Thomas a Kempis	Imitatio Christi	Print: Book

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