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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 1 August 1843: 'I owe to you many many moments of pleasure, some ideas (rare gifts in this age!) & no small feeling of compla...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth BarrettThe Dead PanUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 11 July 1844: 'I read Tennyson with deep & high delight, yet with the mournful feeling that his operation & immortality must ...Harriet Martineau Alfred TennysonpoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 12 April 1845: 'I have been detained from writing to you by reading the Athenaeum of today.'Harriet Martineau The AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 October 1843: 'Lady M. Lambton discharged her commission punctually, bringing me your precious volume before 1st of Sepr. ...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth BarrettThe SeraphimPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Barrett, 16 September 1844: 'You have been in my mind, & your vols -- or one at a time, while the other was out, -- open before me dai...Harriet Martineau Elizabeth BarrettPoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to Elizabeth Pease, 27 February 1841: 'I have read the statements in "Right and Wrong among the Abolitionists of the United States", with respect to the...Harriet Martineau Right and Wrong among the Abolitionists of the Uni...Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to her mother, 17 June 1833: '[Coleridge] read me (most exquisitely) some scraps of antique English'.Samuel Taylor Coleridge "scraps of antique English"Unknown
1850-1899Harriet Martineau to Mrs F. G. Shaw, 17 July 1874: 'I wish to send you my thanks [...] for sending me what I so much wished to see as Mr. Curtis's "Eulogy" on his friend ...Harriet Martineau CurtisEulogy on Charles SumnerUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau NortonWork "in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines"Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau PalfreySermonsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau [Institutional reports]Unknown
1850-1899Harriet Martineau, in letter of 20 March 1873: 'The Life of Dickens is far too exclusively occupied with his personal relations with Forster [...] Yet it has an interest,...Harriet Martineau John ForsterThe Life of Charles DickensPrint: Book
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1850-1899		Harriet Martineau, in letter of 8 July 1862: 'If Mr. Lucas's book should come in your way ("Secularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of History") do look at the chapter last...Harriet Martineau LucasSecularia: Surveys on the Main Stream of HistoryPrint: Book
1850-1899Harriet Martineau, in postscript to letter written in the month before her death, to 'Mr. Atkinson', 19 May 1876: 'I am in a state of amazement at a discovery just made; ...Harriet Martineau Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 1 January 1840: 'Read Examiner [...] but could not write at all. Made a cap, therefore.'Harriet Martineau Leigh Hunt (ed)The ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 January 1838: 'Read "Les Precieuses Ridicules," which did not amuse me very much; though acted I can fancy it capital.'Harriet Martineau MoliereLes Precieuses RidiculesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 October 1837: 'Read some of Channing's "Texas."'Harriet Martineau ChanningTexasUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read Gibbon. Selfish, vain, unhappy man! [goes on to discuss Gibbon]'Harriet Martineau Edward GibbonDecline and Fall of the Roman EmpirePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 10 September 1837: 'Read to Mrs ---- my last chapters of my first volume of "Retrospect." She says the book will do.'Harriet Martineau Harriet MartineauRetrospectUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 December 1837: '"Evening".-- Read aloud Southey's famous article in the Quarterly on British Monachism [sic]. Entertaining, but with a vai...Harriet Martineau Robert Southeyarticle on British [?Monarchism]Print: Serial / periodical


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