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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. ' know the "Mysteries of Paris" very well, & much admire the genius whi...Elizabeth Barrett Eugene SueThe Mysteries of ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 20-21 February 1844: 'We will talk of Eugene Sue. I know the "Mysteries of Paris" very well, & much admire the genius whi...Mary Russell Mitford Eugene SueThe Mysteries of ParisPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews "educated" costermongers who read fiction aloud to groups of costermongers in the courts they inhabit; long account of the comments made by illite...G.W.M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of the Court of LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
1850-1899		Evidence of Abel Heywood to Select Committee considering abolition of newspaper stamps: "This 'Court of London' I consider is a test of the taste of the readers genera...Abel Heywood G.W.M. ReynoldsThe Mysteries of the Court of LondonPrint: Serial / periodical
1700-1799
1800-1849		??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an era in English romances. Her ignorance was nearly e...Charles Maturin Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799Frances Burney noted as having been 'an early reader' of Ann Radcliffe, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (1794).Frances Burney Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799'[Frances] Burney had read both "The Mysteries of Udolpho" and "The Italian" when they first came out, preferring the latter ...'Frances Burney Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799'The next day being wet, we staid [sic] within, when to amuse me I got the 2 last vols of the "Mysteries of Udolpho" (the 2 first of w'ch I had read before we left Chiche...John Marsh Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Brought Mrs Radcliffe's "Mysteries of Udolpho"; I wish I had not read it before, for upon a second reading it loses half its intrest'Joseph Hunter Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I read in the evening the "Mysteries of Udolpho" which Lucy sent me'.Harriet Wynne Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your mention of Hawthorne puts me in mind to tell you what rabid [underlined] admirers we are of his [...] There is no prose write of the present day I have half the i...Margaret De Quincey Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ...Ann RadcliffeThe Mysteries of UdolphoPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		The Mysterious Gentleman Farmer. 3 vols. by J.Cory [sic] There is nothing in this novel, or in the author's Satyrical View of London, that would induce me to waste my tim...Ellen Weeton John CorryThe Mysterious Gentleman FarmerPrint: Book
1900-1945'Lottie's kind of reading, though I could manage it, was not mine; it was usually fiction conducive of the domestic virtues. At the club, my father discovered a num...Edmund Blunden Jules VerneThe Mysterious IslandPrint: Book
1700-1799' ... [The Mysterious Mother (1768)] was read aloud by Mr Smelt and Frances Burney in November 1786. Burney was horrified ...'Frances Burney and Leonard SmeltHorace WalpoleThe Mysterious MotherPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...'Thomas Green Horace WalpoleThe Mysterious MotherPrint: Book
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal (1873): 'Oct. 28th. London. 4 Seamore Place. We took up our abode at Seamore Place in the house we shared with Lady Franklin, and A. like...Alfred Tennyson HintonThe Mystery of MatterPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'In A Young Man's Passage (1950), Mark Tellar recalls "confessing to his prep-school teacher that during the holidays he had read Conway's 'Called Back', together with Fe...Mark Tellar Fergus HumeThe Mystery of the Hansom CabPrint: Unknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Grosvenor Charles Bedford, c. 23 October 1795, 'Have you seen the Mæviad? the poem is not equal to the former production of the same author — but the s...Robert Southey William GiffordThe MæviadPrint: Book
1850-1899'I concluded that no one could really be as good as this book wanted and that it was a fearful waste of time.'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes The Narrow WayPrint: Book


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