√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1850-1899 'The Athenaeum was only a confused intelligence in revolt against Saintsbury's exaggerations ...' Robert Louis Stevenson George Saintsbury [review in Pall Mall Gazette] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'The attact [sic] upon you in the last Edin. Review was too palpably malevolent to produce any bad effect on the public feeling with regard to you, and it was (besides be... James Hogg [review in the Edinburgh Review of Southey's 'Carm... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I am glad you saw Lara; and am indebted for your account of it. I read the review of it in the Quarterly review?some time ago.' [there follow Carlyle's observations on M... Thomas Carlyle anon. [review in the Quarterly Review Byron's Lara] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'The first article in the last Quarterly review is [on] Stewart's second volume. The wise men of London are earnest in their censures of "the metaphysical heresies" of th... Thomas Carlyle William Rowe Lyall [review in the Quarterly Review of Dugald Stewart'... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '"Guy Mannering" is reviewed in the same number [ of the Quarterly Review]. Tho' we have still more reason to question their competency here - you will probably admit tha... Thomas Carlyle anon [review in the Quarterly Review of Scott's Guy Man... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Pollock, I must say, has written a handsome and discriminating notice; he thinks too well of the "Pavilion"; but most of what he says is good as criticism and very kindl... Robert Louis Stevenson Walter Herries Pollock [review in The Saturday Review] Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'Badliewe [sic] has not yet made great noise but has excited a deep interest in a limited sphere. It is reviewed in both our minor reviews in the one with a good deal of ... James Hogg [review in the Scottish Review of JH Craig's The H... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Read the article in yesterday's "Times" on George's Sea-side Studies - highly gratifying... G. is reading to me Michelet's book "De l'Amour".' George Eliot (pseud) unknown [review in Times of G.H. Lewes' "Sea-side Studies"... Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'A capital review of Inland Voyage in the New York Critic for June 2nd.' Robert Louis Stevenson [review of "Inland Voyage" in the "New York Critic... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'The Saturday will help the sale[,] I think, rather than not; and that is all that can be hoped...' Robert Louis Stevenson anon [Review of 'An Inland Voyage'] Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Ray Postgate has given me some [underlined] excellent [end underlining] reviews of it was the Nightingale by Isabel Paterson & (better still) by W.R. Benet under the tit... Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Isabel Paterson [review of 'It Was The Nightingale' in] New York H... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Pu... Anne Romilly Maria Edgeworth [review of 'Les Peines et les Recompenses'] Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'My copy of 'Margaret' is in such demand since the review in the Athenaeum; it is pledged 3 deep'. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell [review of 'Margaret, a tale of the Real and the I... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have only seen Athenaeum, PMG ...' Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown [review of Arabian Nights in Pall Mall Gazette] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have only seen Athenaeum, P.M.G. and the Scotsman.' Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown [review of Arabian Nights in The Scotsman] Print : Newspaper1850-1899 'I have only seen Athenaeum ...' Robert Louis Stevenson unknown unknown [review of Arabian Nights] Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have not read that poem of R. Brownings. I saw the review in the Examiner, (no end of thanks to you for the said,) but don't think I've fairly read it yet!' Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell W.C. DeVane [review of Browning's 'Christmas Eve and Easter-Da... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 16 November 1848:
Charlotte Brontë Eugene Forcade [Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 16 August 1849:
Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown [Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '[Critics] have been as graciously disposed towards me as I could expect. The Edinborough more particularly who have praised me into some Reputation for writing Lyrical V... George Crabbe Francis Jeffrey [review of Crabbe's 'Tales from the Hall'] Print : Serial / periodical
