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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Joan Evans, "Prelude and Fugue: An Autobiography" (1964): 'One of my few conscious naughtinesses after I had attained the age of perception was to steal into the drawing-...Joan Evans Matthew ArnoldpoetryPrint: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Felicia Hemans, 11 May 1827: 'Yesterday your American volume from the Author was put into my hands, and dipping into it here & there without cutting the...Joanna Baillie Felicia HemansAmerican edition comprising two collections of poe...Print: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832: 'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a copy of Miss Kemble's tragedy. I have read it very eag...Joanna Baillie Frances KembleFrancis the FirstPrint: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to John Murray, 16 March 1832: 'I thank you very heartily for your great courtesy in sending me a copy of Miss Kemble's tragedy. I have read it very eag...Joanna Baillie reviews of Frances Kemble, Francis the FirstPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 April 1828, acknowledging receipt, the previous day, of her copy of Berry's "The Comparative View of Social Life in France and England" (...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryIntroduction to The Comparative View of Social Lif...Print: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 24 July 1819: 'Your "Life of Lady Russell," as far as my acquaintance extends, gives general satisfaction [...] I must thank you again for y...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryLife of Lady RussellPrint: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, 9 June 1828: 'I have read your "View of the Social Life, &c.," twice; and it has lost nothing, but rather gained, on the second perusal. Th...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: Book
1800-1849Joanna Baillie to Mary Berry, [1831]: 'I have just read your proof-sheet [of second volume of Berry's "Comparative View of Social Life in France and England"] [goes on to...Joanna Baillie Mary BerryThe Comparative View of Social Life in France and ...Print: In proof
1800-1849John Barrow to John Murray, 1 September 1830: 'I sat up last night over Mr. Macleod's narrative till I had nearly got through it, which proves at least that it interes...John Barrow MacleodVoyage of the Alceste to ChinaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, 22 October 1821, prior to publications of Byron's plays Cain, The Two Foscari, and Sardanapalus: 'If it be not presumptuous of me to ...John Cam Hobhouse George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, from Venice, 7 December 1817: 'Your new acquisition is a very fine finish to the three cantos already published [comments further] [....John Cam Hobhouse George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IVManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849John Clare, writing in 1821, on his attempt to use a school primer to help improve his written English: '"Borrowing a school book of a companion having some entertaini...John Clare 'Spelling Book' (grammar)Print: Book
1800-1849John Forster to Sarianna Browning, 21 September 1846: 'You cannot imagine the surprise with which I saw this morning's announcement [of Robert Browning, Sarianna's b...John Forster Notice of marriage of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 29 September 1829: 'Sir Walter [Scott] has just read the first 120 pages of Moore's "Life of Byron"; and he says they are charming...Walter Scott Thomas MooreLife of ByronUnknown
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: 'He has written some very brilliant essays [...] but ...John Gibson Lockhart Thomas Babington MacaulayHistory of England, vols 1 and 2Print: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 12 January 1849, on Macaulay's recently-published History of England: 'He has written some very brilliant essays [...] but ...John Gibson Lockhart GroteHistory of GreecePrint: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 16 December 1846: 'H[enry]. B[rougham]. spoke with bitterness [...] of Lord John [?Bedford] -- he said he had read his pref...Henry Brougham Bedford Letters vol 3Print: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Wilson Croker, 6 August 1846: 'The "Modern Timon" is not, I think, by a [italics]poet[end italics], but it is the work of a clever man, an...John Gibson Lockhart Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe New TimonPrint: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to Mr and Mrs Hope, 29 December 1847:

'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was writ...		John Gibson Lockhart Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849John Kenyon to his distant relative Elizabeth Barrett, on the latter's An Essay on Mind (read in a copy borrowed from Barrett), 12 July 1826: 'I had scarcely quitted y...Caroline Kenyon Elizabeth BarrettAn Essay on Mind with Other PoemsPrint: Book


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