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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.Mary Godwin Maria Edgeworth (anon.)Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian talePrint: Book
1800-1849'read Curt and Castle Rackrent aloud. S. finishes Castle Rackrent in the evening'.Percy Bysshe Shelley Maria Edgeworth (anon.)Castle Rackrent, an Hibernian talePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday July 19th. [...] Read Comic Dramas by Miss Edgeworth [...] Read Essay on Irish Bulls. [...] 'Friday July 21st. Finish Essay on Irish Bulls'. ...Claire Clairmont Maria Edgeworth and R.L. EdgeworthEssay on Irish BullsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, on her research for a story to be set in Ceylon: 'I gathered what I could from books, but really feared being obliged to give up a singularly good illu...Harriet Martineau Maria GrahamunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[present at dinner at Mr Murray's was] 'The Mrs Graham who wrote the lively India Journal, a delightful woman!'George Crabbe Maria GrahamJournal of A Residence in IndiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am so glad thou has been reading some works on Geology. 'Geological Sketches' was the first I ever read; it is an excellent preliminary work, and interested me so mu...Eliza Ellis Maria HackGeological Sketches and Glimpses of the ancient Ea...Print: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Lily'; [text] 'How withered, perished seems the form/ Of you obscure unsightly root/Yet from the blight of wintry...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Maria TigheThe lilyPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Letter from Lucy Aikinto Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been ...Lucy Aikin Maria and Richard Lovell EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849Letter from Lucy Aikin to Mrs.Taylor, dated October 1805: 'But within the last few days everything has given way to "Practical Education", which my mother and I have been...Martha Aikin Maria and Richard Lovell EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1900-1945'Paxton has a bet of a dinner that war will be over by 1st July. So Bridge. Read Under Two Flags by Ouida.' William Thomas Maria Louise RamUnder Two FlagsPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Books read] August [1914:] By waters of Germany.
Queenie's whim.
Timothy's Guest.
Basil Lyndhurst.
Highway of Fate.
Lamp Lighter
Boo...		Harriet Bickersteth Cook Maria Susanna CumminsLamplighter; Or, an Orphan Girl's Struggles and Tr...Print: Book
1800-1849'Disputes run very high here upon the subject of ''Violet''. Some of the party are quite convinced it is written by a woman and have some suspicions it is Mrs Marsh ......Emma Wedgwood Marian Dora Malet BeasleyViolet; or the DanseusePrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mariana StarkeTravels on the continentPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376-7 against the text line 'L'Eglise de St. Francois' ...Magdalene Erskine Mariano VasiItineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (++) throughout, one date (p. 68 'Feb, 18.19'), and very occasional comments; eg. longest example is p. 83 at the end of the section 'Tombeau...Mariano VasiItineraire instructif de Rome a Naples ou descript...Print: Book
1900-1945[Spoto states that Hitchcock read Marie Corelli's "The Sorrows of Satan" in 1920/21 in preparation for helping to make a film of it which was afterwards abandoned.]Alfred Hitchcock Marie CorelliThe Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1850-1899I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one might say the same of Miss Marie Corelli, who, by the...Margaret Oliphant Marie Corelli Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		Annette R. Federico notes anecdote in Kent Carr's 1901 biography of Marie Corelli, in which it is reported that New Zealand and Australian soliders in South Africa during...New Zealand and Australian soldiersMarie CorelliThe Soul of LilithPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Kent] Carr cites a letter [Marie] Corelli received from a colors sergeant in the Boer War in May 1900: "Now to tell you about your delightful books which were invaluabl...Marie CorelliThe Sorrows of SatanPrint: Book
1900-1945I moved to Marie Corelli and there I found a book of newspaper articles called 'Free Opinions'. The type was large. The words were easy, rather contemptibly so. I read an...Victor Sawdon Pritchett Marie CorelliFree OpinionsPrint: Book, Newspaper


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