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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...Anne Romilly Walter ScottWaverleyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...Anne Romilly Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...Anne Romilly Walter ScottLady of the Lake, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...Anne Romilly Walter ScottMarmionPrint: Book
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...James Mackintosh Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverle...James Mackintosh Walter ScottLord of the Isles, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Since I wrote the first two pages of this letter I have read Eugene and Guilliaume, and quite agree with you. Pray correct Sir James Mackintosh's opinion [about "Waverle...James Mackintosh Walter ScottRokebyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the Author of "Waverley" altho' it is not avow'd who that...Anne Romilly Walter ScottTales of my LandlordPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray read "Tales of my Landlord". They are charming. I think there can be no doubt but that they are written by the Author of "Waverley" altho' it is not avow'd who that...Walter ScottTales of my LandlordManuscript: Unknown
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 Walter Scott[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our...Jane Austen Walter ScottThe AntiquaryPrint: Book
1800-1849'After reading the Bride of Lammermoor [Tennyson] wrote the following [reproduces juvenile poem "The Bridal"]'.Alfred Tennyson Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: Book
1850-1899'He [George Gissing] recommended [in letters to his siblings] books like Morris's "Earthly Paradise", a poem "abounding in the quaintest archaisms"; Ruskin's "Unto this l...George Gissing Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book
1850-1899'[from] April 25th [...] [Tennyson] "copied out 'Maud' for the press, and read 'The Lady of the Lake,' having just finished Goethe's 'Helena.'"'Alfred Tennyson Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1900-1945'His books, over three hundred of which are preserved as he left them in 1918, show the range - and limitations - of his interests at school and later. Shakespeare, Scott...Wilfred Owen Walter Scott Print: Book
1850-1899'She announced among other things that Longfellow was her favourite poet. “Byron is nice too” she added “Especially his Elegy on the death of a mad dog.”!!! Shakespeare...Cornelia Sorabji Walter ScottunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oddly, I remember little of what must have been read to us in the 'poetry' lessons. Apart from a fragment or two of strictly abbreviated nursery rhymes, there was the fa...Charles Causley Walter ScottLochinvarPrint: Book
1850-1899'These brave words of Scott remind me of the song in The Antiquary, which I have just re-read ...'Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottThe AntiquaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'The two middle verses of that song have haunted me ever since I was a child and used to go up into the dark drawing-room with a little wax taper in my hand ... a white t...Robert Louis Stevenson Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1850-1899'He [Tennyson] would always talk of Thackeray's novels, Esmond, Pendennis, and The Newcomes as being "delicious; they are so mature. But now the days are so full of false...Alfred Tennyson Walter Scottnovels including Old MortalityPrint: Book


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