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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 2 October 1849: 'I saw the "Amba[r]valia" reviewed somewhere -- I fancy in the Spectator -- and was not much struck...Elizabeth Barrett Browning Thomas Burbidge and Arthur Hugh CloughAmbarvalia (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I got from my town head the idea that the world was made for us all and not for the few....so became a Socialist. But the war and its shocks and the good books I've read...William and Martha DoddAmbassador Dodd's DiaryPrint: Book
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Florence Elizabeth Gaskell Wilhelm MeinholdAmber Witch, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 7 November 1800: 'A cold rainy morning ... I working and reading Amelia.'Dorothy Wordsworth Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished Fielding's "Amelia". There is a still stronger and more disgusting taint of vulgarity, in this Novel, than in Joseph Andrews...'Thomas Green Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fielding's Amelia - Sir Launcelot Greaves. a little of Tacitus - Twopenny post bag.'Mary Shelley Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1700-1799'He told us, he read Fielding's "Amelia" through without stopping'.Samuel Johnson Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read a little more of "Amelia", which is about the worst planned story I ever read - no plan at all in fact; "Gil Blas" has always some tangled connection and momentary ...John Ruskin Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1700-1799Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 30 March 1751: 'How to account for Miss Mulso's unmerciful severity to Amelia is past my skill, as it does not appear that she wa...Hester Mulso Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 22 April 1752: 'At last we have begun Amelia, it is very entertaining. I do love Dr Harrison and the good Serjeant; and Mrs James...Catherine Talbot and family.Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1700-1799'You guess that I have not read "Amelia". Indeed I have read but the first volume. I had intended to go through with it; but I found the characters and situations so wret...Samuel Richardson Henry FieldingAmelia (1st vol.)Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 14 March 1752: 'I have begun reading a book which promises some laughing amusement, "The Female Quixote;" the few chapters I read...Martin Benson Henry FieldingAmelia (volumes 1 and 2)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 28 May 1812: 'In the evening the Princess [?of Wales] read to us "Amelie de Mansfeldt."'Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales Madame de CottinAmelie de MansfeldtUnknown
1800-1849Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1812: '[Princess Charlotte] left between nine and ten o'clock [pm]. The Princess [?of Wales] then continued reading "Amelie de Mansfeldt."'Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales Madame de CottinAmelie de MansfeldtUnknown
1800-1849' At 2.30 went out to the library [..]Subscribed for a month [...] Came up to bed at 9.35. Sat up reading the first 79pp and several pages at the end of Amelie Mansfield....Anne Lister Mme Marie-Sophie CottinAmelie MansfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849[Letter to Maria Barlow, dated Tuesday Morning, 16 August 1825] ...It is as I have just read from the pen of Madme Cottin "La musique, comme un seductor adroit, va touche...Anne Lister Sophie CottinAmelie MansfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is the rainy evening of a dull day which I have spent in reading a little of Klopstock's Messiah (for the man Jardine, who broke his engagement); and in looking over ...Thomas Carlyle John BristedAmerica and her ResourcesPrint: Book
1900-1945'What price Bart Kennedy on America in the Daily Mail?' Arnold Bennett Bart KennedyAmerica RevisitedPrint: Newspaper
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
1850-1899Henry James to Grace Norton, 4 January 1879: "I am afraid the ancient savagery of the New England clime has come back to you -- as I see nasty hints of it in the American...Henry James American newspaper telegramsPrint: Newspaper


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