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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 15 December 1817: 'I think your Elegy a remarkably good one ... I do not know whether you wished me to retain the copy, but I shall ret...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Belgrave HoppnerElegyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849During this Spring read Shakspeare [sic] regularly through, and studied the characters of Hamlet, Douglas, Osman in 'Zara', Sir Charles Racket &c and purchased & read a g...John Cole Richard Brinsley SheridanThe DuennaPrint: Book
1800-1849[due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works] Welsh collier Joseph Keating was able to immerse h...Joseph Keating Richard Brinsley Sheridan Print: Book
Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), on R. B. Sheridan, 15 October 1821: 'One day I saw him take up his own "Monody on Garrick". -- He lighted ...Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley SheridanMonody on GarrickUnknown
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Richard Brinsley Sheridan Print: Book
1850-1899'Pupils at Queen's College remembered the puritanical standards imposed by Owen Breen, English and Elocution Professor there in the 1890s. L. V. Hodson notes that when r...English class, Queen's CollegeRichard Brinsley Sheridan Print: Book
1900-1945'I finished reading "The Rivals", and have embarked on Bradley's "Shakespearean Tragedy"'.Hilary Spalding Richard Brinsley SheridanRivals, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'I did a lot of "The Rivals", which I don't like a bit. It has momentary flashes of wit, but otherwise it's awful.'Hilary Spalding Richard Brinsley SheridanRivals, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Richard Brinsley SheridanCritic, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Richard Brinsley SheridanRivals, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Went to hear Mr and Mrs Wigan read Tennyson and "the Rivals" at Apsley House'.Mr and Mrs WiganRichard Brinsley SheridanThe RivalsPrint: BookManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[transcribed in what appears to be Lady Caroline's hand]: 'With modest sidelong look and downcase glance / Behold the well matched couple now advance / His hand held he...Lady Caroline Lamb Richard Brinsley Sheridan'The Walse' also entitled 'The Waltz'Unknown
1900-1945'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two of Keats; Chaucer, Sheridan, Lamb, Scott's "Old Mor...Norman Nicholson Richard Brinsley Sheridan[unknown works]Print: Book
1850-1899'Spent the evening reading with Harry & Sissy, both of these youngsters have some idea of dramatic reading & like very much to show off their capabilities. Sissy & I read...Castieau familyRichard Brinsley SheridanSchool for ScandalPrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Brinsley SheridanCritic, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'The Characters in the modern Comedies of Puff, Snake & Spatter are quite new, & peculiar to this age I think; it is to Novels & Dramatic Representations that one owes th...Hester Lynch Thrale Richard Brinsley SheridanSchool for Scandal, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'Was pleased with Harry. This evening he read a scene with me from the School for Scandal & showed a good deal understanding'Harry Castieau Richard Brinsley SheridanSchool for ScandalPrint: Book
1800-1849'I begin to find like Joseph Surface that too good a character is inconvenient.'Walter Scott Richard Brinsley SheridanSchool for ScandalUnknown
1800-1849'I don't know what I have done to gain so much credit for generosity but I suspect I owe it to being supposed, as Puff says, one of "those whom Heaven has blessed with af...Walter Scott Richard Brinsley SheridanThe CriticUnknown
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of 'Verses by R. B. Sheridan Esq'Catherine Austen Richard Brinsley SheridanVersesUnknown


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