√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 | 'I continued two years with this man [an apothecary to whom he was apprenticed], I read Romances and learned to Bleed'. | George Crabbe | | [Romances] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read novels and poetry and began to contribute to Magazines and Diaries.' | George Crabbe | | [Novels and poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M... | George Crabbe | | [Latin medical books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M... | George Crabbe | | [botany books] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read much, collected Extracts & translated Latin Books of physic with a view of double improvement; I studied the M... | George Crabbe | Gilbert Knowles | Materia medica botanica | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The Frenchman who wrote Maxims says 'there is hardly anyone who does not repay great obligations with Ingratitude'. | George Crabbe | Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Maximes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I am desired by the Duchess of Rutland to Print a Discourse which I read at Belvoir-Chapel at the Funeral of the late... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | [funeral address for Duke of Rutland] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'I think Drayton's Verses have a peculiar propriety in such work; his Subject being the same and his Poetry now becomi... | George Crabbe | Michael Drayton | Polyolbion | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq... | George Crabbe | Arthur Young | Six Month's Tour Through the North of England, A | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'With this parcel we return Messrs Marshall and Young. some Observations from the former I lay by as matters to be inq... | George Crabbe | William Marshall | Rural Economy of the Midland Counties, The; Including the Management of Livestock in Leicestershire and its Environs' | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I do not perfectly understand Fabricius always, but I think his Genera more natural than those of any other Author; i... | George Crabbe | Johan Christian Fabricius | Systema entomologiae | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'we know nothing of mankind, but from letters and Neswpapers, to the latter of which, in spite of my Verses & Witticis... | George Crabbe | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Pratt Author of a poem called "the Lower World" & of divers other works in prose & rhyme sent to me his Book with ... | George Crabbe | Samuel Jackson Pratt | Lower World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whateve... | George Crabbe | | Scotish Review, The | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'by the way my dear Sir, why does the Scottish Reviewer (late Edinboro Quarterly) abuse me in his last Number? Whateve... | George Crabbe | | Edinburgh Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I derived a three fold Pleasure from the Receipt of Rokeby, first from the book itself, the Article, the thing sold a... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Pratt & I began to write nearly about the same time & his Sympathy & my Village were [cancelled] nearly [ end canc... | George Crabbe | Samuel Jackson Pratt | Sympathy; a Poem | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Marmion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Crabbe relates how he has had a letter from a Lady who] 'enjoins and adjures me to go instantly & climb the Mountain... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Horace in London | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Rejected Addresses | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have a present of the poetical Register no 7 as a testimony of respect & therein I find [italics] Horace in London ... | George Crabbe | William Wordsworth | [poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'there is one Story if story it may be called, that Shape or Limb, Beginning or End has none, "The ancient Mariner or ... | George Crabbe | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I will not mention my own nor my son's Judgment upon the Poem, which in spite of my Prohibition he stole for a solita... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Lord of the Isles, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'We talk of Waverly [sic] and Guy Mannering: Lady Jersey sent me the former [italics] as yours [end italics]. I vote w... | George Crabbe | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]ite... | George Crabbe | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'you can write: They really are very admirable Things and the Morality is as pure & useful as the literary merit is co... | George Crabbe | Mary Leadbeter | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Boswell the younger. Malone's papers.' | George Crabbe | Edmund Malone | [unknown] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the pamphlet Mr Boswell recommended:, natural, certainly, and the man had too much provocation for his act.' | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [pamphlet] | |
| 1800-1849 | [present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!' | George Crabbe | Maria Graham | Journal of A Residence in India | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Miss Edgeworth's dramas'. | George Crabbe | Maria Edgeworth | [Dramas] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went to Norwich & past two Days with Mrs Opie who has written some pleasant books, particularly the [italics] Fathe... | George Crabbe | Amelia Alderson Opie | Father and Daughter, The: a Tale in Prose, with an Epistle from the Maid of Corinth to her Lover, and Other Poetical Pieces | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have thought of your lines, and will claim your pardon when I suggest another alteration. The boy and the butterfly... | George Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I assure you she [Mrs Murray] was a Shield to me on the Night when I read my Verses.' [to Murray and others, prior to... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | [verses] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received yours this Morning as I was reading pages 85-113 in the M.S.' | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | Tales from the Hall | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I found your Poem some days before at Mr Hoare's who has paid his Annual Visit to Bath. Give me full Credit when I as... | George Crabbe | Samuel Rogers | Human Life, A Poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have p... | George Crabbe | Francis Jeffrey | [review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall'] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Mr Gally Knight the Author of a Book of very fair Poetry, told me a Story which He thought would suit me [as the ba... | George Crabbe | Henry Gally Knight | Alashtar, an Arabian Tale [?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Murray made me a present of the 5 Octavo Vols of Mr Irvings Works, the Sketch-Book & some others: I do understand ... | George Crabbe | Washington Irving | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Here is Mr Mackensie - with the Surprise I heard it - the Author of "the Man of Feeling" & indeed he is so called.' | George Crabbe | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Blackwood the Editor of the Magazine which goes under his Name & who this Morning - in Modo Mr Murray of London - ... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [Miscellany] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'With your Letter I found a Parcel containing 2 vols of Poetry from a Gentleman who some time since wrote to me upon t... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I will not forget Blackwood's Magazine, for though you will not approve much you will certainly be entertained by som... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Patrick Keith | Systems of Physiological Botany | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [Travels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Johan Wolfgang von Goethe | Faust | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Denis Chavis | Arabian Tales; or, A Continuation of The Arabian Nights Entertainments | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I like the books which we purchased though the Physiological Botany is rather too minute & supposes the Reader a Lear... | George Crabbe | Thomas Warton | History of English Poetry, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have just read the "Liber Amoris" of (as we are told) Mr Hazlet: it is strange that any Man could write & marvelous... | George Crabbe | William Hazlitt | Liber Amoris, or the New Pygmalion | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been engaged by Spurzheims new Edition of his Phrenology: he does not write English Accurately & even where I ... | George Crabbe | Johann C. Spurzheim | Phrenology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I thank you for your Letter & Mr Scott's Treatise. True! I agree with him in his principal Idea, though even there I ... | George Crabbe | Abraham Scott | Calvinistic Doctrines Refuted | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The public opinion [of the trial of Catherine Cook, a servant convicted of theft] is, I think, expressed in the Morni... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Morning Herald, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | Horace Smith | Gaieties and Gravities; A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries | Print: Book |
| | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | Reynolds | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How are you supplied with Books; I have some from Bath, but I begin to be weary of toil & Humour. yet Mr Reynolds was... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'The reason for my not mentioning the History of Bremhill was this. I had not read at that time more than a very few p... | George Crabbe | William Lisle Bowles | Parochial History of Bremhill, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | Edward Copleston | Inquiry into the Doctrines of Necessity & Predestination | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | Joseph Milner | History of the Church of Christ | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think you do not mean the Treatise of Copplestone that I do, for I see nothing in his Discourses of Necessity and C... | George Crabbe | John Newton | Cardiphonia, or Utterance of the Heart | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'That is a curious kind of Hallucination which Miss B. discovers in her Addresses to imaginary Beings: it comes very n... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [book on witchcraft trials] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'You and I both love reading, and it is well for me that I do; but at your time reading is but one employment, whereas... | George Crabbe | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you met with a Work called Scripture Difficulties? - C. Benson in the Hulsean Lectures?' | George Crabbe | Christopher Benson | Hulsean Lectures for 1822: On Scripture Difficulties; Twenty Discourses | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading & have nearly read, a Work upon Enthusiasm, [the] 3d Edition, the author unknown to me, but a thinking M... | George Crabbe | [unknown] | [unknown work on religious enthusiasm] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. B... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | [newspapers at time of Reform debate] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read the papers, Reviews &c &c and cannot help perceiving strong prejudices on both Sides of the Reform Question. B... | George Crabbe | [n/a] | Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost ... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | Lady Barbara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost ... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | Ellen | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not done much with the Sermons you sent me nor after the Bristol Huricanes Would you expect it, still I have n... | George Crabbe | George Crabbe | [sermons] | Manuscript: Unknown |