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Bryan Edwards : The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
"As [S. T. Coleridge] recalled in the Friend, 'I had [when composing The Three Graves in 1798] been reading Bryan Edwards's account of the effects of the Oby Witchcraft on the Negroes in the West Indies, and Hearne's deeply interesting Anecdotes of similar workings on the imagination of the Copper Indians ...'"
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Bryan Edwards : The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
'S. reads Bryan Edwards History of the West Indies. M. reads Ethwald and eats oranges - in the evening Shelley reads aloud the view of the French Revolution for a short time'. [text as far as Ethwald in PBS' hand, thereafter MG]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
Bryan Edwards : The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
'read some of Kirke White's letters - slavish beyond all measure - begin History of the West Indies by Bryan Edwards'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Bryan Edwards : The history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
'Read Bryan Edwards's account of the West Indies'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin Print: Book
Bryan Edwards : he history, civil and commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies
'read Bryan Edwards all evening'
