√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 Harriet Martineau hears her first (pseudonymously) published work read by her unsuspecting eldest brother: 'After tea he said "[...] I will read you something"; and he he... Harriet Martineau article on "Female Writers on Practical Divinity" Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Harriet Martineau, Journal, [?6] January 1838: 'Read, in Blackwood, article on Mademoiselle Gautier, a devotee, -- much like other devotees, whose tales are, however, ver... Harriet Martineau article on "Mademoiselle Gautier" Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 From George Grote's diary, kept for his fiancee Harriet Lewin (1819):
'Rose at 9. Breakfasted and read some of Hemsterhuis, "Sur la Divinite." my brother Joseph
came... George Grote article on 'Mill's British India' Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 The Rev W. F. Hook to John Wilson Croker, 8 April 1839:
'Mr. Murray forwarded to me a copy of the "Quarterly Review" a few days ago, and he did so, I presume, by your ... T. W. Hook William Sewell article on 'the Oxford Divines' Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe, to Leonard Woolf, 29 July 1940:
'I read your article on the Politician and the Intellectual, in the New States... Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes Leonard Woolf article on 'the politician and the intellectual' Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 George Grote to 'Mr Bain,' 4 Septemberr 1868:
'In coming down here [Long Bennington] yesterday, I read the September number of the "Fortnightly," seeing by the adverti... George Grote John Fiske article on 'the Science of History' Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to G. W. Smalley, 21 February 1883: "I have just been reading in the Tribune your letter of Jan. 25, in which you devote a few lines to the silly article in t... Henry James G. W. Smalley article on American novels Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for December two articles by your two friends F. Harrison a... Henry James F. Harrison article on Bismarck Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to Thomas Moore, 10 January 1815: 'I have redde thee upon the Fathers, and it is excellent well ... you must not leave off reviewing. You shine in it ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas Moore article on Boyd's Select Passages from the Writing... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 The Duke of Wellington to John Wilson Croker, 31 December 1840:
'I will not deny myself the satisfaction of telling you with what delight I have perused your article i... Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington John Wilson Croker article on British foreign policy Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 December 1837: '"Evening".-- Read aloud Southey's famous article in the Quarterly on British Monachism [sic]. Entertaining, but with a vai... Harriet Martineau Robert Southey article on British [?Monarchism] Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Harriet Martineau, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Journal, 14 January [?1835]: 'Read Carlyle's article on Burns. Was mightily cheered and lifted up by it.' Harriet Martineau Thomas Carlyle Article on Burns Print : Unknown1850-1899 Henry James, in letter to Charles Eliot Norton, 16 January 1871, mentions "just having read in the Fortnightly for December two articles by your two friends F. Harrison a... Henry James J. Morley article on Byron Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Harriet Martineau, Journal, 14 January 1838: 'Read Channing's "Texas," and found it nobler than ever before [...] Read aloud Southey's article in the Quarterly on Cemeter... Harriet Martineau Robert Southey Article on cemeteries Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 From Hallam Tennyson's account of his father's last days:
'On Sept. 3rd [1892] he complained of weakness and of pain in his jaw [...]
'On Wednesday the 29th we tele... Audrey Tennyson article on colonization of Uganda Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 28 August 1896: 'The only thing that befell me [on recent week in London, from 15 August] was that I dined one night at the Savoy with F. Ort... Henry James Alphonse Daudet article on death of Edmond de Goncourt Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 John Wilson Croker to John Murray jr, 14 February 1857:
'I have been so very ill as to have been unable until yesterday to look at the Raglan article in the last Quart... John Wilson Croker article on Duke of Wellington Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 'Elusiveness. Shut up always in the same carcase, one is puzzled by this charge, which is brought against me not only by an ill-bred-and-natured journalist Priestley in t... Edward Morgan Forster J. B. Priestley article on E. M. Forster Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Wednesday, 1 August 1827:
'Smoked a cigar after dinner, laughd with my daughters and read them the review of Hoffmann's production out of Gillies's new Foreign review.... Walter Scott Walter Scott article on E. T. W. Hoffmann Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Henry James writes to Paul Bourget (in French) in a letter of 19 December 1906, of having read his article on Ferdinand Brunetiere in "Temps"a few days beforehand. Henry James Paul Bourget article on Ferdinand Brunetiere Print : Serial / periodical
