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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Mr Wishaw' to Mary Berry, 14 July 1819: 'On returning from the country I find your kind and acceptable present [Berry's Life of Lady Russell] [...] I have read over the ...Mr Wishaw Mary BerryLife of Lady RussellPrint: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 April 1828, acknowledging receipt, the previous day, of her copy of Berry's "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England" (...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryIntroduction to The Comparative View of Social Lif...Print: Book
1800-1849Lady Charlotte Lindsay to Mary Berry, 25 April 1828, on vol.1 of Berry's "Comparative View of Social Life in France and England": 'Your book is [italics]quite new[end ita...Lady Charlotte Lindsay Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 9 June 1828: 'I have read your "View of the Social Life, &c.," twice; and it has lost nothing, but rather gained, on the second perusal. Th...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Professor W. Smythe to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'Your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"] quite succeeded with me, giving me a great d...Professor W. Smythe Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Charles Poulett Thomson to Mary Berry, [1828]: 'I return you your book [vol. 1 of "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England" with many thanks for the ins...Charles Poulett Thomson Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, [1831]: 'I have just read your proof-sheet [of second volume of Berry's "Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"] [goes on to...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: In proof
1800-1849Lord Francis Jeffrey to Mary Berry, 22 April 1842 ('Friday Evening'): 'I have just been reading over your admirable letter for a third time, and, after nourishing the med...Lord Francis Jeffrey Mary BerryLetter to Lord Francis JeffreyManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'I thank you very much for the entertainment I have received from your book. I should however have been afraid to marry such a woman as Lady Rachel; it would have been to...Sydney Smith Mary BerrySome Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, L...Print: Book
1800-1849'I read several chapters of Miss Berry's work, a Comparative View of the English and French Nations, since the time of Charles II to the present day. I think this work a ...Charlotte Bury Mary Berry[historical work]Print: Book
1800-1849'I think Miss Berry's introduction of matter so offensive to the living very injudicious and blameable. You may be right perhaps in calling her preface dull and stupid bu...Sydney Smith Mary Berry (ed.)[Letters of Mme du Deffand to Horace Walpole and t...Print: Book
1900-1945'I had been reading Mary Border's book "Passport for a girl" and the day following my dream, I was interested to read in Page 201 describing the Austrian Anschluss, how o...Mary BorderPassport for a girlPrint: Book
1900-1945'I had been reading Mary Border's book "Passport for a girl" and the day following my dream, I was interested to read in Page 201 describing the Austrian Anschluss, how o...Mary BorderPassport for a girlPrint: 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 Mary Braddon[stories]Print: Unknown
1850-1899'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black,...Alfred Tennyson Mary Braddon Print: Unknown
1800-1849Comparing scripture with scripture. Reading besides Self control [by Mary Brunton] which Henrietta has borrowed from Mrs. Martin. It is formed on the model of Clarissa ...Elizabeth Barrett Mary BruntonSelf ControlPrint: Book
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to James Simpson, 22 October 1819: 'I have been much interested in the perusal of a work sent me some time since by Mr. Murray, the memoirs of the late Mrs...Felicia Hemans Mary BruntonEmmeline: With Some Other PiecesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am looking over Self-Control again, & my opinion is confirmed of its' [sic] being an excellently-meant, elegantly-written Work, without anything of Nature or Probabili...Jane Austen Mary BruntonSelf ControlPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a week in the house, at John Street with the two first ...Joanne Jardine Mary BruntonSelf-controlPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not read "Self control", and am determined not to read it, till my own eternal rubbish is concluded. I was a week in the house, at John Street with the two first ...Esther Burney Mary BruntonSelf-controlPrint: Book


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