| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'From 7.40 to 9 1/2 reading aloud to myself from p.42 to 50 (very carefully) vol.I Rousseau's Confessions. I READ this... | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Came up to bed at 9.50. Read from pp55 to 65 Vol.I Rousseau's Confessions.' | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Could not resist unpacking my books from Paris...About ten [servant] came and curled my hair. Stood musing. Peeped i... | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Reading from pp 22 to 32, II, Nouvelle Heloise.' | Anne Lister | Jean Jaques Rousseau | Julie: ou Nouvelle Heloise | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one... | Anne Lister | Thomas Campbell | The Pleasures of Hope | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Tea at 8. Then read aloud to my aunt the first 74pp Vol I, "Sayings and Doings'."Excellent. Dont know when I have la... | Anne Lister | Theodore Hook | Sayings and Doings | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Found on the table at the inn ( in no.9, a very nice small parlour with a lodging openinginto it), among several othe... | Anne Lister | | Peak Scenery, or Excursions in Derbyshire | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Tea at 8. Read aloud to my aunt the first 31pp of Moore's Buxton and Castleton Guide.' | Anne Lister | Henry Moore | Buxton and Casleton Guide Picturesque Excursions i | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79... | Anne Lister | Mme Marie-Sophie Cottin | Amelie Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ' Went out [..] to the Tuileries Gardens at 8.55. In going, bought at the 1st shop on the left, under the arcades. a p... | Anne Lister | Chateaubriand | Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi | |
| 1800-1849 | [ Had bought and read pamphlet immediately prior to this experience] 'Paid a sol for the Journal Politique which I rea... | Anne Lister | | Journal Politique or Moniteur on Journal Politique | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Read the psalms and lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermon 15 and ...My aunt read aloud 17, Polwhele | Anne Lister | Richard Polwhele | Sermons: a new volume | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Got to Mr Knights 1/4 after 3 and was with him full an hour and a half [...]These questions were all asked as soon as ... | Anne Lister | Lucian | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar + Bonney-Castle's algebra...went to Mr Knight at 3. | Anne Lister | | [Greek Grammar] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Extensive discusion of the text in a letter to Marianne Lawson 15/03/1823.] ...Throw in too, I grant, some fine poetr... | Anne Lister | Thomas Moore | The Loves of the Angels | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to M. Lawson dated Saturday 15 March 1823] I have no room for more about the Retrospective Review, than that I... | Anne Lister | | Retrospective Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter dated 1823, to Miss Pickford]. Madame Marcet is a very good guide as far as she goes, but surely respecting t... | Anne Lister | Jane Marcet | Conversations on Natural Philosophy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sarah Maclean, dated Monday 21 June 1824] Your being so fond of Cowper tells me half of your character- How... | Anne Lister | William Cowper | Retirement | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cot... | Anne Lister | Sophie Cottin | Amelie Mansfield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Aunt dated 3 February 1832] I do not think any books so bad to read as a newspaper. [...]If you ever read ... | Anne Lister | Edward Bulwer-Lytton | Eugene Aram. A Tale by the Author of 'Pelham' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter dated Monday 15 January 1838] Have you seen that book of Bernard's on the Constitution? Not fit for every eye.... | Anne Lister | J. B. Bernard | Theory of the Constitution Compared with its Pract | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | What matters it to me if Young was an ambitious man or not? He wrote what I feel; and tho' not his wishes, his words w... | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated August 18 1824] I should have marked, and doubtless, have done so in my little edit... | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The Complaint: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Letter to Sibbella Maclean, dated Saturday 10 July 1824] You remind me of Dr Gregory's advive to his daughter. A woma... | Anne Lister | John Gregory | A Father's Legacy to His Daughters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The Grecian History has pleased me much you know Mr Trant made a present of the Roman History, what a brave people the... | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Grecian History | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My library is one of my greatest pleasures after a good ramble in the fields. I assure you I am very much pleased with... | Anne Lister | Alexander Hunter | Georgical Essays | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I was rather unwell for about an hour, but not very bad when I could go on reading The Vicar of Wakefield | Anne Lister | Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast, looking over the Greek grammar and Bonnycastle's algebra... | Anne Lister | John Bonnycastle | An introduction to algebra or a treatise on algebr | |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast from line 36-86 Sophlocles 'Electra' | Anne Lister | Sophlocles | Electra | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Assisted my Aunt in reading prayers in the afternoon. In the evening read aloud sermons 8+9, Hoole. | Anne Lister | Joseph Hoole | sermons on several important practical subjects | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | After breakfast...dawdling awaythe morning in looking over medical Mss, weighing out powders [...]. | Anne Lister | | ['Medical Mss'] | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a pers... | Anne Lister | | The Bay of Biscay | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Looking over some songs, writing out 'The Bay of Biscay' and 'Said Eve unto Adam' + dawdling literally quite in a pers... | Anne Lister | | Said Eve unto Adam | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | In the evening, between 8+9, read from pp 263-307, vol I, Gibbon's Miscellaneous works. He died in London [...] 16 Jan... | Anne Lister | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In the afternoon at 3.40, down the old bank to the library...No Miss Browne. I could have said, changing only the gend... | Anne Lister | Edward Gibbon | Miscellaneous Works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | This morning's post brought me (from York, directed by Anne Belcombe, Petergate) the Manchester Observer [etc] 2 sheet... | Anne Lister | | Manchester Observer or literary, commercial and poli | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast + afterwards, from 11 to 1, making minutes + extracts from Hall's travels in France (it must go to th... | Anne Lister | Colonel Francis Hall | Travels in France in 1818 | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Looking over the Annals of philosophy for November last. Population of Moscow - effect of bathing in the Red Sea [...] | Anne Lister | | Annals of philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | I was on the amoroso till M- made me read aloud the first 126pp, vol 2, of Sir walter Scott's(he has just been made a ... | Anne Lister | Sir Walter Scott | The Monastery. A romance | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | from 1 to 3, read the first 100pp. vol 3 Leontine de Blondheim...It is altogether a very interesting thing +have read ... | Anne Lister | August Fredrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue | Leontine de Blondheim | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A Conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London [e | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Spent the afternoon in mending some of my things for the wash. After tea, read aloud sermons 13+14 of Alison's. | Anne Lister | Archibald Alison | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Read...Demosthenes +...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' & I certainly feel considerab... | Anne Lister | Desmosthenes | All the Orations of Demosthenes | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Had no time for Eudid but looked into Emerson's mechanics for 1/4 hour, as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | The principle of mechanics | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Just after ten read aloud to my aunt the very favourable review of Lallah Rookh; an Oriental romance by Thomas Moore..... | Anne Lister | Thomas Moore | Lallah Rookh or 'Review' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At 12 Marianna and I went upstairs. She sat sewing and I reading aloud to her the first 3 or 4 pages of the M.S. Lect... | Anne Lister | Dr Scudamore | Lectures on physiology | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | Read...Demosthenes and ...Lelands translation. This is the 4th Greek work I have read thro' and I certainly feel consi... | Anne Lister | Thomas Leland | All the Orations of Demosthenes Translated into En | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | had no time for Euclid but looked into Emerson's Mechanics for 1/4 hour as I wish to prepare myself a little for Dalto... | Anne Lister | William Emerson | Mechanics or The Principles of Mechanics | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | before breakfast, props.24+25 lib. Euclid | Anne Lister | Euclid | The Elements | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | between 1 and 2, the first 7 propositions of the 1st book of Euclid, with which I mean to renew my acquaintance and to... | Anne Lister | Euclid | The Elements | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | All went to morning church & said the sacrement [...] Read the psalms & lessons to myself. After tea, read aloud sermo... | Anne Lister | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | I have been pleased with some tracts on political Economy by William Alias Entomology Spence esq. F.L.S. Just reprinte... | Anne Lister | William Spence | Tracts on Political Economy: Viz I. Britain Indepe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Before breakfast from 7 3/4 to 9 1/4, from 10 3/4 to 2 1/2 (including an interruption of 20 minutes)read from V.1304 t... | Anne Lister | Sophocles | Philoctetes | |
| 1800-1849 | Called at Whiteley's. Saw there the Leeds Mercury & my father's estate advertised in it. Went to the library for a lit... | Anne Lister | | The Leeds Mercury | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Went downstairs a very little after 9 so as to have 1/2 hour before church for reading 2 or 3 old papers my uncle gave... | Anne Lister | | '2 or 3 old papers' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | Began Dr Johnson's tour to the Hebrides, A journey to the western Isles of scotland... My aunt and I read aloud the ev... | Anne Lister | James Boswell | The journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | down the newbank to Halifax. Called at a shop or 2, and at Miss Kitson's. Went for 1/2 hour tothe library till the Sal... | Anne Lister | Cicero | On/the book of old age | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From Hope went to the library and staid about an hour reading... In monthly Magazine of July 1820 remarkable praise of... | Anne Lister | | Monthly Magazine | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In the morning, looking over the abridgement of Spence's Polymetics... that was Isabella's... gave me the idea of writ... | Anne Lister | Joseph Spence | Polymetics Abridged | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [9 September has problem getting book from] Reading a few pp. of my Paris guide, in French, for the sake of reading Fr... | Anne Lister | | 'Paris guide' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | The following paragraph, apparently cut-out from a newspaper, but without date or reference, has been lent me by Mrs N... | Anne Lister | | 'Old Maids' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | In the evening, read in the European magazine for last month, an additional memoir of the life of Napoleon...Madame de... | Anne Lister | | European Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | I shall turn for a while to Urquhart's comentaries on classical learning. O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my sp... | Anne Lister | David Henry Urquhart | Commentaries on classical learning | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "The heart knows its own bitterness + it is enough. Je sens moncover, et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme ... | Anne Lister | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Confessions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Did not come to breakfast till 10. Read M some of my journal. Dawdled away the morning, talking to one another, till ... | Anne Lister | Anne Lister | Journal | Manuscript: Sheet, mss memoirs |
| 1800-1849 | In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. ... | Anne Lister | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Just before tea... read from p.126 to 168, collections and recollections the last article a pretty well done account o... | Anne Lister | John Stewart | Collections and recollections | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At 4 3/4 read from p.91 to 138 The art of employing time, which, from p.134 to where I have left off, I am more partic... | Anne Lister | | The art of employing time to the greatest advantage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Got home a few minutes past one. M- + I tete-a-tete in the drawing [room]... Brought down Dr Ash's little book, Instit... | Anne Lister | John Ash | Grammatical Institutes | Print: Book |
| | Came upstairs at 10 1/2 [...] musing melancholily over the fire till 11. From then till 3.10, read the whole of (M-sen... | Anne Lister | By the author of valerius and Reginald Dalton | Some passages in the life of Mr Adam Blair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From 8.30 to 9.10 walked on the terrace, occasionally reading Young's Night Thoughts. Coffee at 9.10. | Anne Lister | Edward Young | The complaint, or night thoughts | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walked forward to Lightcliffe. Mrs W. Priestley + Miss Hodgson at dinner... would call again in 1/2 hour. Did so, afte... | Anne Lister | | | Print: text printed on gravestonesUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | Isabella sent me, from Croft, the Globe + Traveller of last Friday, containing the account of the death of Lord Byron ... | Anne Lister | | The Globe and Traveller | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | From 2-6 looking over volumes 2, 3, 4 + 5 as far as p.111 of my journal. Volume three that part containing the account... | Anne Lister | Anne Lister | Journal | Manuscript: Sheet, mss her memoirs/ journal |
| 1800-1849 | 'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics ... | Anne Lister | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Dr Scudamore, recommended and has just sent me to look at Thomsons Conspectus of the Pharmacopeias, a nice little 42 m... | Anne Lister | Anthony Todd Thomson | A conspectus of the pharmacopeias of the London | Print: Book |