Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Xenophon

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'[the father of C.H. Rolph] read diligently through a list of the "Hundred Best Books" compiled in 1886 by Sir John Lu...Xenophon MemorabiliaPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... it was whilst at a frivolous, rote-learning girls' school that ... [Frances Power Cobbe] developed her determine...Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon Print: Book
1800-1849"Deist" and "heathen" authors studied by the young Frances Power Cobbe: "Gibbon, Hume, Tindal, Collins, and Voltaire ....Frances Power Cobbe Xenophon MemorabiliaPrint: Book
1900-1945Copious MS notes in the hand of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, including: "The marginal lines, and notes, are copied from ...George Otto Trevelyan Xenophon Anabasis; with an English translation by Carleton L. BrownsonPrint: Book
1900-1945"CPT read this aloud to PJD December 1957, the last book we read before his death in Jan 1958. He had not read it sinc...Charles Philips Trevelyan Xenophon AnabasisPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
The Earl of Lonsdale to John Wilson Croker, 4 September 1849: 'I am a [italics]worshipper[end italics] of Arthur Yo...Earl of Lonsdale Xenophon Print: Book
1800-1849From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819): 'Mr Bury brought me Ricardo's pamphlets this ...George Grote Xenophon Print: Book

 

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