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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Richard Hengist Horne to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 June 1844: 'Leigh Hunt has shown me his copy [of A New Spirit of the Age] all marked through. He has marked with great...Leigh Hunt Richard Hengist HorneA New Spirit of the AgePrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846: 'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that beautiful things are there -- I suppose "Delora" wil...Robert Browning Richard Hengist HorneBallad RomancesPrint: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846: 'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that beautiful things are there -- I suppose "Delora" wil...Robert Browning Richard Hengist Horne'The Merrie Devil of Edmonton'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, 4 January 1846: 'I found Horne's book at home, and have had time to see that beautiful things are there -- I suppose "Delora" wil...Robert Browning Richard Hengist Horne'Stanzas to a Ruined Windmill'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not h...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Richard Hengist Horne'The Monk of Swineshead Abbey'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not h...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Richard Hengist Horne'The Three Knights of Camelott: a Fairy Tale'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Roberrt Browning, 4 January 1846: 'When you get Mr. Horne's book you will understand how, after reading just the first & last poems, I could not h...Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Richard Hengist Horne'Bedd Gelert'Print: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 December 1847: 'You will have thought me strangely tardy in acknowledging your courteous present, but th...Charlotte Bronte Richard Hengist HorneOrionPrint: Book
1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 5 April 1845: 'For Mr Horne's storybook, I like some of the stories & think it a pretty book. A few children of six years o...Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist Horne and Mary GilliesA Story Book of Country ScenesPrint: Book
1900-1945[A Sheffield Survey organised by Arnold Freeman in 1918, assessing 816 manual workers, gives the following case:] 'Private in an infantry regiment, formerly a skilled pai...questionaire respondent Richard Henry DanaTwo Years Before the MastPrint: Book
1800-1849'The routine of the "Scourge" has grown familiar; and one tires of unbroken fine weather and smooth seas. No resource for me but the officers' little library. Therefore I...John Mitchel Richard Henry DanaTwo years before the mastPrint: Book
1900-1945'On the wall at the side of the chimney Dad put up the bookshelves which Dodie began to fill with secondhand penny books. Over the years we had Conrad and Wodehouse, Eric...family of Rose GambleRichard Horatio Edgar Wallace[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849?Upon the whole, this play with the powerful assistance of eminent actors and scenical illusion and burning palaces, and processions with towers of the Inquisition in per...Charles Maturin Richard Lalor SheilThe Apostate: a tragedy in five actsPrint: Book
1800-1849'read Edgeworths life.'Mary Shelley Richard Lovell EdgeworthMemoirs of Richard Lovell EdgeworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'We were very much pleased with Mr Lovell Edgeworth's narrative which Mrs Marcet showed us, a very little addition from your pen would have made a very delightful fashion...Anne Romilly Richard Lovell Edgeworth[a narrative]Unknown
1800-1849'We have been much instructed by the readings on poetry and long for the Irish Tales'.Romilly FamilyRichard Lovell EdgeworthReadings on poetryPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 19 January 1821: 'I have been reading the Life, by himself and daughter, of Mr. R. L. Edgeworth, the father of the M...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria EdgeworthMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 2 February 1821, on tendency to attacks of thirst: 'I read in Edgeworth's Memoirs of something similar ... in the ca...George Gordon Lord Byron Richard Lovell and Maria EdgeworthMemoirsPrint: Book
1700-1799'You must get La Peyrouse's Voyage - and Vancouver's, and a book just come out on practical education by a Mr Edgeworth - [italics] Edgeworth on Practical Education [end ...Sydney Smith Richard Lovell AND Maria EdgeworthPractical EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'Wednesday July 11th. Read Edgeworth's Memoirs. [...] 'Thursday July 12th. [...] Read Life of Edgeworth -- I think their system seems to aim at making the mind s...Claire Clairmont Richard Lovell and Maria EdgeworthMemoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. Begun b...Print: Book


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