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

	1800-1849	'I read Self Countrol & like it extremely all except some vulgarity meant to be jocular which tired me to death. but I think the principal character charming & well suppo...	Charlotte Barrett	Mary Brunton	Self-control	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'"Discipline" people tell me to read, but I have no stomach to it, I believe because of the [underlined] name [end underlining], fool that I am! - But one thing is, I did...	Sarah Harriet Burney	Mary Brunton	Self Control	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverle...	Anne Romilly	Mary Brunton	Discipline	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'[At boarding school in Chelsea] I applied rigidly to study, and acquired a taste for books, which has never, from that time, deserted me. Mrs [Meribah] Lorrington freque...	Meribah Lorrington	Mary Darby	poems	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'The Hulses have been reading Mrs Delany's Letters, & never were so interested, they say, nor even [underlined] affected [end underlining] in some parts of it, by any boo...	General Sir Samuel Hulse and his wife	Mary Delany	Letters from Mrs Delany... to Mrs frances Hamilton...	Print: Book
	1800-1849	7/1/1827 ? ?Then read the first part of Mary Dudley?s Life; felt true unity with her experience when first called to the ministry. What a bright course was hers! ?	Amelia Opie	Mary Dudley		Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I have not been able to ride the last few days because it has been so hot. We have finished "The Voyage of the Constance" and it is so pretty, we are reading "The Prince...	Gertrude Bell	Mary Gillies	The Voyage of the "Constance": A Tale of the Polar...	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I wonder whether you have read that first book of Miss Eyre's ("Mary Eyre" of the Times) "A Lady's Walks in the South of France". What a disgusting book it is, - a beggi...	Harriet Martineau	Mary Grote	A Lady's Walks in the South of France in 1863	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Books read] May [1914]. Alice Ottley Memoir. Pennell 10/6 Memoirs. at last! Neve Kashmir A woman in the antipodes & far east by Mary ...	Harriet Bickersteth Cook	Mary Hall	A Woman in the Antipodes and Far East	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I have just cast my eye over your sensible little pamphlet, and found fewer of the superlatives, exquisite, fascinating &c, all of the feminine gender, than I expected. ...	Mary Wollstonecraft	Mary Hays	Cursory Remarks	Manuscript: Unknown, MS version of pamphlet
	1700-1799	'Mrs Robinson... has read your novel, and was very much pleased with the main story; but did not like the conclusion. She thinks the death of Augustus the end of the stor...	Mrs Robinson	Mary Hays	Memoirs of Emma Courtney	Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799	Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797: 'When I was with George Dyer one morning last week Mary Hayes & Miss Christall entered, & the ceremony of introduction fol...	Robert Southey	Mary Hays	articles in the Monthly Magazine	Print: Serial / periodical
	1900-1945	'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...	Mary Hayward	Mary Hayward	[paper on ballads]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The subject of this evening's discussion was The Philosophy of Henri Bergson. Interesting papers were given by C.E. Stansfield who introduced the discussion; by Howard R...	Mary Hayward	Mary Hayward	[paper on Henri Bergson]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The evening was then given over to the life & works of Lewis Carroll. Mary Hayward Life of Lewis Carroll. Songs. Well you walk etc Mrs Robson. Walrus & C. E.E.U. Speak g...	Mary Hayward	Mary Hayward	[paper on life of Lewis Carroll]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1900-1945	'The evening was then devoted to the subject of Psychical Phenomena. The Secretary (Ernest E. Unwin] read a brief introductory paper, giving some indication of the way in...	Mary Hayward	Mary Hayward	[paper on the sub-conscious]	Manuscript: Unknown
	1800-1849	'I got your beautiful book of Ballads the other day at Moxon's. It contains (as far as I have seen it) much that is sweet and good and reminds me of you.'	Alfred Tennyson	Mary Hewitt	Ballads and other poems	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Aust...	Elizabeth Barrett	Mary Howitt	Home, The	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 7 December 1842: 'I like Mary Howitt's lyrical poetry -- ballad poetry, I shd say distinctively, -- and once thought, -- b...	Elizabeth Barrett	Mary Howitt	The Seven Temptations	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One of them asked me if I was fond of reading and told me that she herself wrote books and was staying in the neighbourhood hoping to include the dale in her next book. ...	Hannah Mitchell	Mary Humphrey Ward	The History of David Grieve	Print: Book

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