| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Plutarch | [history] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Charles Rollin | Ancient History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | | Ancient Universal History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie | Chronicles of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Joseph Addison | The Spectator | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, might have been the serial versions or, more likely, bound as a book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Burns | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Allan Ramsay | [poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | John Milton | Paradise Lost | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pi... | Janet Hamilton | Robert Fergusson | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tape... | Cicely Hamilton | Walter Scott | Works including The Tapestry Chamber | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Cicely Hamilton, who had read all of Scott by the time she was eleven, wrote that one of his short stories, 'The Tape... | Cicely Hamilton | | The Ingoldsby Legends | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Martineau, Journal, 6 February 1838: '[At Captain Beaufort's] Met [...] C. Darwin, Mr. F. Edgeworth, and Mr. H... | | Harriet Martineau | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'It would be well if both tales and books werwe always calculated to ... In the "Evenings at Home", or "Juvenile Budge... | Elizabeth Hamilton | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'How pleasing Atterbury's softer hour! How shin'd the Soul unconquer'd in the Tower!' Pope. | Frances Hamilton | R. Atterbury (Bishop of Rochester) | The Epistolacy Correspondence. Speeches and Miscellanies with historical notes | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | The reader listed the contents of this publication. Vol 1. The Second Edition.
'Poems. Ode to Hope. Elegy on the deat... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Poems and Essays by a Lady Lately Deceased | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Two very long quotations:
1. 'Speech is as subject to interpretation there is so great a difference between indescr... | Frances Hamilton | M. de Secondat, Baron de Montequieu | Spirit of Laws | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Remark that this publication was 'Abt the Test Act', so presumably read it. | Frances Hamilton | John Mead | [Sermon about Wakefield's Address to the Inhabitants of Nottingham] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | an Observation 'By those who profess a knowledge of human Nature, the real causes of deep and continued dissension wil... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | The Christian Church from the Earliest Period to the Present Time | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | content of this letter described 'as objected' in a pamphlet recommended by his Lordship 1789 (presumably the reader h... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | A Letter to Earl Stanhope | |
| 1700-1799 | 'Vol 1 containing Prometheus Chain'd, The Supplicants, The Seven Chiefs against Thebes.
'Vol 2 Agamemnon.
N.B. A ... | Frances Hamilton | Aeschylus | The Tragedies of Aeschylus | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 24 Oct 1788:
'Smith's version of Longinus on the Sublime, a translation with notes and observations - is a credit to ... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 13 Dec 1788
Another long quotation from Smith's translation:
'The Sublime is a certain force in discourse... from th... | Frances Hamilton | Rev William Smith | Poetic Works including his version of Longinus on the Sublime | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of character of Sir Keneth (?) Digby.
'By his eager pursuit of knowledge seemed to be born only for... | Frances Hamilton | Rev J Granger | Biographical History of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, with a preface. Vol 1 and 2 | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Long description of the character of Duke Sully by Henry 4th of France:
'his temper harsh, unpatient, obstinate, too ... | Frances Hamilton | [unknown] | Memoirs of Maximillion de Baltiure, Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | "amused myself with looking over Cowley's Geometrical Plates - the different Problems of Euclid are drawn upon Pastebo... | Mary Hamilton | John Lodge Cowley | ?[An Appendix to the Elements of Euclid] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When she [Katherine Hamilton, sister of Elizabeth] is not employed about something necessary and useful, she entertai... | Katherine Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Hamilton | Blind Harry's Wallace | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Shakespeare | [History Plays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [A history of England] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] Previous to her arrival in Stirlingshire she had learnt to read with distinctness and propriety; and... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Homer | Iliad | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] In the evening Elizabeth had often to repeat a long elaborate task extracted from the now obsolete p... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [scholastic divinity essays] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words. A family friend having tried to shake EH's religious faith,] To terminate this state of doubt, which... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [books chosen by Mrs Marshall] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] without literary pretensions, Mrs Marshall had a genuine love of reading, and when no other engageme... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[editor's words] In reading the annals of her own country, she had been touched with the hard fate of Lady Arabella S... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [Scottish history] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[EH having been expecting her brother back from India] Think, then, what I felt on reading in the newspaper of that s... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | [EDITOR WRITES]'During several months, Mr Hamilton was sedulously engaged in unravelling all the intricacies of the Pe... | Charles Hamilton | [n/a] | Hedaya | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | '[EDITOR's WORDS] His [her brother, Charles's ] conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and wi... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [oriental literature] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] In composing this work [her "Letters on Education"], she accustomed herself to read a few letters to... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When the first proof came home, I did not like its look in print; so stopped the press, and wrote another first chapt... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Letters on Education | Print: proof |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | [Classical latin works in translation] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] The author, directed by her learned friends, was indefatigable in collecting documents and procuring... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | [modern works on Classical subjects] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'On reading the first sheets [of her "Cottagers of Glenburnie"] at her own fire-side, she was encour... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | Cottagers of Glenburnie, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'If no engagement intervened, the interval from seven till ten was occupied with some interesting bo... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [unknown] | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] She had, however, dwelt long enough on the idea [of aging] to make it the subject of a sportive poem... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Elizabeth Hamilton | [poem - 'Is that Auld Age'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Dugald Stewart | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Archibald Allison | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Paley | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'It now only remains for me to walk worthy of that vocation to which I am called. Let me do so in the very manner in w... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible [ Paul to the Ephesians, Ch 4] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The superiority of the Scriptures to every composition of human genius, must appear incontestible to those who persev... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In studying the prophets, with a view of particularly examining the witness they bear to the Messiah, many things hav... | Elizabeth Hamilton | [n/a] | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Vol 7
On the Griphi and Impromptus
(quotation) 'I was very large at my birth and likeways in old age; but very small... | Frances Hamilton | Abbot Barthelemu | Travels of Anacherbis the Younger in Greece during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian Era | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'A book I have a high opinion of' | Frances Hamilton | Dugald Stewart | Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'I read The Government of the Country by D. O'Bryan.
N.B. a rebellious book.' | Frances Hamilton | D O'Bryan | The Government of the Country | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | Virgil | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood | Alfred Tennyson | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Let me remember, that though I now see, in all the prophets, the most valuable testimony to the truth of the Christia... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [books on the prophecies] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The parable of the talents was one of the first passages in the New Testament that attracted my serious attention'. | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [New testament] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The evidences of the infinite wisdom, power, and goodness of the great Creator, given by Paley in his Natural Theolog... | Elizabeth Hamilton | William Paley | Natural Theology | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | James Currie | Life of Robert Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Mrs --] 'books, for a certain length of time, are a charming substitute for common conversation. I do not ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Robert Burns | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a ch... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Robert Burns | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Letter to H.M. Esq.] I have purchased your friend "Currie's Life of Burns"; which, I confess, has operated like a ch... | Elizabeth Hamilton | James Currie | Life of Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to H.M. esq] my poor brains have been of late so completely fused in the furnace of metaphysic, that they hav... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [books on metaphysics] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] 'it appears to me, that even in your slighter pieces, this illusion [hiding judgmen... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Hector Macneil | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] [EH says she has received a note from 'Miss H.] along with your volume, of which sh... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Hector Macneil | Harp, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] Do I not well remember hiding "Kaims's Elements of Criticism", under the cover of a... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Henry Home, Lord Kames | Elements of Criticism | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] It was the perusal of Tacitus, in Murphy's translation, which first excited the idea in my mind [of... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Tacitus | Annals | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] My reading [on classical subjects relevant to a projected book] has not been, by any means, extensi... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] If you have not yet seen the Edinburgh Quarterly Review, I beg leave to recommend it your perusal, ... | Elizabeth Hamilton | | [Edinburgh] Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Dr S.] I have just finished the perusal of a publication which plainly shows what may be accomplished by t... | Elizabeth Hamilton | Thomas Clarkson | History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[letter to Miss J-B-] I have just been looking over the fifth volume of poor Burns. it contains much that he would ha... | Elizabeth Hamilton | R.H. Cromek | Reliques of Robert Burns | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Monday. 16 February 1829:
'Went to the Royal Society. There Sir William Hamilton read an Essay, the result of some ... | Sir William Hamilton | Sir William Hamilton | 'On the size of the brain and the proportion of its parts, as affected by age, sex, or sexual mutilation.' | Unknown |