Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Erasmus Darwin

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'On this day I began reading Darwin's "Zoonomia", w'ch I had lately proposed in the Book Society.'John Marsh Erasmus DarwinZoonomiaPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
'[Anna Seward's] training was not necessarily less rigorous for being informal and solitary. Seward scoffed at a male ...Anna Seward Erasmus Darwin[unknown]Print: Book
1700-1799Horace Walpole (as 'Thelyphthorus') to Mary Berry, 28 April 1789: 'I send you the most delicious poem upon earth [Eras...Horace Walpole Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden (part 1)Print: Unknown
1700-1799Mary Berry to Horace Walpole [1789]: 'A thousand thanks for the "Botanic Garden." the first thirty lines, which I hav...Mary Berry Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden (first thirty lines)Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected wi...Mountstuart Elphinstone [Erasmus] DarwinBotanic GardenPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, March 1828: 'I send you three notices of my poem [An Essay on Mind] [...] Th...Elizabeth Barrett Erasmus DarwinThe Botanic Garden, a PoemPrint: Book
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, 12 July 1795, 'How wonderfully must the brain be organized to form all th...Robert Southey Erasmus DarwinZoonomia, or, the Laws of Organic LifePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed ou...George Gordon Lord Byron Erasmus Darwinarticle 'on Diseased Volition'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed ou...Lord and Lady ByronErasmus Darwinarticle 'on Diseased Volition'Print: Unknown

 

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