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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I love the Warder as much as I detest these radicals and the general harping spirit of the Whigs Pray is my dear friend Cunninghame the author of The Cameronians Surely ...James Hogg anonBlackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anon. political a...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am much pleased by your attention in sending me such [CUT] and confess my weakness that such [CUT] and Z. to Leigh Hunt are quite delicious pray may I ask if the India...James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - anonymous poem an...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'There are some very able papers in the last Magazine as usual but I do not think the selection likely to add much to its popularity The Notices however are inimitable mo...James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, including the poet...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'This last is indeed a [italics] redeeming Number [end italics] even if the fallings off had been greater Nothing like it has I think appeared'.James Hogg Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine; 'Noctes Ambrosiana...Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in the article on Magazines, but the coming here complica...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'On the 28th September I was reading "Blackwood", when the magazines of our metropolis were just getting on their outer garments; while their northern brethren were quiet...Charles Knight Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly now.'Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article on Hayward is very good. Sir Edward Hamley, I think?...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun of Macdonald, who is often a noble writer, but not, ...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have taken during the last year. It has been more full ...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham, 19 February 1819: 'I know little of Blackwood's Magazine, and wish to know less. I have seen in it articles so infamous that I do...William Wordsworth Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Emily Bronte, diary paper for 30 July 1841 'It is Friday evening -- near 9 o'clock ... Aunt upstairs in her room -- she has been reading "Blackwood's Magazine" to papa .....Elizabeth Branwell Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
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1850-1899		After leaving school aged thirteen, '... [Dorothea Beale] read far more history than fiction, plus the major reviews of the time [1840s] -- "The Edinburgh", "Quarterly", ...Dorothea Beale Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Went to the Athenaeum & read the papers before tea. In the evening read Blackwood & afterwards had my chest painted with iodine in the hope "that would cure the cold I g...John Buckley Castieau [n/a]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Your common student wrote to me about Blackwood's Magazine, shewing who wrote in it and who spoke of it; he talks about 'Kenilworth a Romance'; he then describes his sto...[unknown student] anon Blackwood's magazinePrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1850-1899'Spent the evening at the Mechanics, read a Review in Blackwood of Barnum's work "The Life of a Showman" the critic shows no mercy & really the book is such an impudent a...John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Friday June [...] 24th. Early in the morning receive a letter from Mr. Baxter with a number of Blackwood's Magazine and some Edinburgh Newspapers. Read them all day.'Claire Clairmont Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I saw it [praise of Joanna Baillie] in "Blackwood's" this present month, and with indignation too. I never deny the wonderful excellence of Joanna Baillie, but no one sh...Mary Howitt Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I amused myself with reading a tale in Blackwood till nine o'clock'John Buckley Castieau [unknown]Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical


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