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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'Mary Shelley Thomas MooreIntercepted Letters; or, Twopenny Post-BagPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1817. As far as possible texts mentioned in journal entries are not given separate database entries from this list. Texts marked with an ...Mary Shelley Thomas MooreEpistles, Odes and Other PoemsPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thursday Jany. 23rd. Do an Italian exercise & read some of Moore's Anacreon [...] Read Anarcharsis [...] Begin Goldsmith's History of Greece p.40.'Claire Clairmont Thomas MooreOdes of Anacreon, Translated into English VersePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato'Mary Shelley Thomas MooreFudge Family in Paris, The. Edited by Thomas Brown...Print: Book
1800-1849'Sunday July 29th. [...] Read Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress.'Claire Clairmont Thomas MooreTom Crib's Memorial to CongressPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Ann Lowry Boyd, c. April 1831: 'For the last week I have not been at all well, & indeed was obliged yesterday to go to bed after breakfast instead...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas MooreLetters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices o...Print: Book
1800-1849'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read since I got Lord Byron's life - I have no pretensions to being a critic - yet I know infin...Mary Shelley Thomas MooreLife of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'I saw my Father today who is quite delighted with Mr Moore's book - indeed who is not? - He thinks the whole sets Lord Byron in the light he best deserves - Generous ope...William Godwin Thomas MooreLife of Lord ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must be Lady B's. He is not equal to Moore for [italics]...James Hogg Thomas MooreIrish MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849From John Wilson Croker's Note Book: 'On the 25th November 1825, I went by His Majesty's invitation to dine and sleep at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park. His Majesty...King George IV and John Wilson CrokerThomas MooreLife of SheridanPrint: Book
1850-1899'At home there were daily Bible-readings in the family circle for many years, but secular reading aloud happily also found a place. Lucy was "A good reader" and gave them...Lucy Housman Thomas Moore[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'I worked in the Gaol in the morning for a time then lazily read ["Lalla Rookh"?] till dinner time'John Buckley Castieau Thomas MooreLalla Rookh: an oriental romancePrint: Book
1850-1899'We rowed past these [floating islands of the Dal Lake] on our way to the Shalimar Gardens, already so well known to me from reading "Lalla Rookh".'Zoe Procter Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Helen Rawlings Thomas MooreLalla RookhPrint: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Miss Goadby Thomas Moore Print: Book
1900-1945'The meeting at the Lawn on Dec 9 1901 was devoted to the life & works of Moore & Hood. F.J. Edminson read a paper on their works and Miss Goadby one entitled Reminiscenc...Frederick Edminson Thomas Moore Print: Book
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines from Moore's Lalla Rookh [untitled and unattributed], beginning 'I wept thy absence – oer...Catherine Austen Thomas MooreLalla RookhUnknown
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1850-1899		From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of "My birthday" T Moore' beginning '"My Birthday” what a different sound/ That word had in my youthful ...Catherine Austen Thomas MooreMy BirthdayUnknown
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
1800-1849'The first volume of "Lord Byron's Life and Letters," published on the 1st of January, 1830, was read with enthusiasm, and met with a very favourable reception. Moore say...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Thomas MooreLife of ByronPrint: Book


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