| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 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 | '[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'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 |
| 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 |