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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunt...George Eliot (pseud) anon. [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]Print: Newspaper
1900-1945'D. H. Lawrence . . . reviewed the novel [The World of William Clissold by Wells] in the "Calendar" of October 1926, in a piece which Bennett says shows his "childish and...Arnold Bennett D.H. Lawrence[review of H.G. Wells's "The World of William Clis...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘The Poems [Hartley’s 1833 Poems], I believe, have not done so far amiss. The Review in the Quarterly I must thank you for. It is far too laudatory for my stomach, and ...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][review of Hartley Coleridge's 1833 Poems in The Q...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘I received the Quarterly [Review] from Mr. Murray. If praise could do me any good, there is enough of it: but I know nothing of that “overweening worship of Wordsworth...Hartley Coleridge [n/a] [n/a][Review of Hartley Coleridge's 1833 Poems in The Q...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘Mr. Parry has not yet received the Number of the Quarterly containing the Review of my book - but I got a sight of it the other day at Mrs. [Louise] Claude’s. I am, of...Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge[Review of Hartley Coleridge's Lives of Distinguis...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849‘Here, Hal, you see the influence you possess as a Tremensian; no one, not even Bingley, would have thought [of?] continuing the work had it not been for your panegyric...Hartley Coleridge Henry Nelson Coleridge[Review of Hartley Coleridge's Lives of Distinguis...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'No! I have not read nothing! - not even a review of Idylls of the King - only heard Mrs Norton's account of Tennyson's reading it'.Alfred, Lord Tennyson [unknown][review of his own 'Idylls of the King']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have had a proof of a review of my dramas by Gillies - the analysis is good but the whole of the part that refers to me as the author I dislike but an author has no ri...James Hogg Gillies[review of Hogg's 'Dramatic Tales']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Jean-Pierre-Guillaume Catteau-Callevill...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 2 November 1848:

'I am glad [...] to hear that "Madeleine" is come out at last, and was happy to see a favourable notice ...
Charlotte Brontë [review of Julia Kavanagh, Madeleine, and The Thre...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I think I said in one of myy recent scrawls all I had to say concerning Mr Macauley's Review: every part of which I like mainly, except his severe mention of the Royal F...Sarah Harriet Burney Thomas Babington Macaulay[Review of Madame d'Arblay's "Diary and Letters" i...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I ought to have told you that my dear Madame Mohl was the author of that Recamier article, - stay, I'll put her letter in, - I know I can trust you, - and we are just of...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Madame Mohl[review of Mme Lenorment's 'Souvenirs et Correspon...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I had a letter from America, and the party who buttered me so free in last Century is, it appears, one J. C. Bunner.'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Cuyler Bunner[review of New Arabian Nights in Century]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I saw my book advertised in a number of the Critic as the work of one R. L. Stephenson ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Henry Holt[Review of New Arabian Nights in Critic]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I inclose [sic] a review which Lang sent me, presumably his own and presumably from the Daily News.'Robert Louis Stevenson Andrew Lang[review of New Arabian Nights in Daily News]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg then complains at Boyd's unwillingness to publish "...James Hogg David Laing[review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Ed...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'A book that I am sure would amuse Barrett, and perhaps you also, very much, is [underlined] Jouhaud's Paris dans le dixneuvieme Siecle [end underlining]. The account of ...Sarah Harriet Burney [unknown][review of Pierre Jouhaud, "Paris dans le dix-neuv...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 16 November 1848:

'To-day I have received the "Spectator" and the "Revue des deux Mondes." The "Spectator" consistently m...
Charlotte Brontë [Review of Poems of Ellis, Acton and Currer Bell]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was m...James Hogg Francis Jeffrey[review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review]Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Fanny has just been reading a little of one of Jeffrey's reviews of Wordworth...'Fanny Wedgwood Francis Jeffrey[Review of Wordsworth]Print: Serial / periodical, Edinburgh Review



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