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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797): 'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] we are of an afternoon, my aunt reads and tells us st...Harriet Ponsonby Voltaire L'Enfant prodigePrint: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgina Cavendish (November 1797): 'You can't imagine, G. how tourty [sic] we are of an afternoon, my aunt reads and tells us st...Harriet Ponsonby storyPrint: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'As soon as breakfast was over I read and played on the harp'.Lady Harriet Cavendish  Print: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'G. is very much interested in the "black penitent" and is now reading it in the window in mamma's little room.'Lady Georgina Cavendish 'the black penitent'Print: Book
1700-1799Harriet Cavendish to unknown recipient (c.1796): 'When we got home [from walking and visiting] I read and played till desert, after desert I wrote to you.'Lady Harriet Cavendish  Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister Georgiana, Lady Carlisle, 5 December 1825: 'We are much shocked to see in "Galignani" an account of the poor Duchess [of Rutla...Lord and Lady Granville (Granville and Harroet Leveson Gower) report of Duchess of Rutland's deathPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but not without feeling or passion. Parts of it are magn...Granville Leveson Gower George Gordon Lord ByronCainPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822: 'I think "Cain" most wicked, but not without feeling or passion. Parts of it are magn...Harriet Countess Granville George Gordon Lord ByronSardanapalusPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Bruton Street, 3 January 1824: 'We landed here at half-past three yesterday, dined tete-a-tete w...Lord and Lady Granville (Granville and Harriet Leveson Gower)  Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 1 August 1825: 'I have begun reading the Bible with notes regularly. I always liked what ...Harriet Countess Granville BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 17 February 1825: 'I feel already the hundred comforts of the [Mardi Gras] carnival being...Harriet Countess Granville SegurLife of BuonapartePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from Paris, 5 December 1824: 'It amused me to open a new volume of Mme. Campan's journal at these wor...Harriet Countess Granville Madame CampanJournalPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from St Omer, 27 February 1824: 'You have no idea what a comfort and pleasure it is to me to have you...Harriet Countess Granville 'little book upon prayer'Manuscript: Unknown, Copied in MS.
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville Basil HallJournal in South AmericaPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague (June 1824): 'What a pretty book Captain Hall's is [...] George's verses gave me the g...Harriet Countess Granville George HowardversesUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, from The Hague, 22 April 1824: 'Here is again the most delicious spring weather. I wish you could see...Granville Leveson Gower French newspapersPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet Martineau describes reading, on Good Friday 1833, a 'forthcoming' number of the "Quarterly Review" containing a negative review of her work, lent to her by a cler...Harriet Martineau unknown[Article attacking Harriet Martineau]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau hears her first (pseudonymously) published work read by her unsuspecting eldest brother: 'After tea he said "[...] I will read you something"; and he he...Harriet Martineauarticle on "Female Writers on Practical Divinity"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau mentions using 'Sale's Koran', borrowed from a public library, in preparation for entering a Central Unitarian Assocation competition for the best essay...Harriet Martineau The KoranPrint: Book


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