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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt)Albert Battiscombe Leigh HuntThe Court ServantPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron Leigh HuntExaminer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the best "Session" we have ... 'George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh HuntThe Feast of the PoetsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in the Canto which I have just finished ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh HuntThe Story of Rimini (Canto 3)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... were in fixed perusal & delight with it ...'Augusta Leigh Leigh HuntThe Story of RiminiUnknown
1800-1849'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, witho...Jane Baillie Welsh Leigh HuntThe Wishing CapPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback editions of Shakespeare and ploughed through the lite...Allen Clarke Leigh Hunt[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'she was reading Leigh Hunt's "Rimini", and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni - evidently because it was to her as a portrait of another diffi...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sentimentalist.'Thomas Carlyle Leigh HuntThe ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Hunt's journal, which is extremely interesting'Mary Shelley Leigh HuntExaminer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'.Claire Clairmont Leigh HuntIndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wednesday Dec. 13th. [...] Read Indicators'.Claire Clairmont Leigh HuntIndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 March 1840: 'I cant agree about the Legend, I read the whole of it - & although your remark upon the versification seems...Elizabeth Barrett Leigh HuntA Legend of FlorencePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 October 1841: 'I never read Leigh Hunt's book [...] because (now comes a foolish reason) I had understood that he said ...Mary Russell Mitford Leigh HuntLord Byron and Some of His ContemporariesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - in fact I didn't have the slightest idea of what it w...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntLord Byron and Some of his ContemporariesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you write about it) lovely world.'Mary Shelley Leigh HuntLegend of Florence, APrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you have done the most difficult thing in the world wit...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntPoetical Works of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more I read the more I am enchanted by it. - I have been ...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntImagination and Fancy; or, Selections from the Eng...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson & Browning in the Church of England quarterly [....Elizabeth Barrett Leigh Huntreview article on Tennyson and/or BrowningPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for his oppression - except that a sense that they are ...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntStories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the ...Print: Book


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