√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem] Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Written Beneath...' Unknown 1800-1849 John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he is delighted; and Mr. Canning, most particularly so w... William Gifford George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III Unknown 1800-1849 John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he is delighted; and Mr. Canning, most particularly so w... George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III Unknown 1800-1849 John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he is delighted; and Mr. Canning, most particularly so w... Walter Scott George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III Unknown 1800-1849 'Sleep at Bologna - S. reads 4th Canto aloud to me - read Montaigne' Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV Print : Book1800-1849 John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, from Venice, 7 December 1817:
'Your new acquisition is a very fine finish to the three cantos already published [comments further] [.... John Cam Hobhouse George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks." I think it a most amusing book ... I have not
ye... Elizabeth Barrett George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth Print : Book1800-1849 '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will... Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third Print : Book1800-1849 'S. calls on Lord B - He [presumably Shelley] reads the 4th Canto of Childe Harold' Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV Print : Book1800-1849 'Read 4th Canto' Mary Shelley George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text... Percy Bysshe Shelley George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt Print : Book1800-1849 [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text... Mary Godwin George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Romaunt Print : Book1800-1849 'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! ... And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. 4th canto' Bowly group George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold, Canto IV Unknown 1800-1849 'Sometime about the twenty first year of my age I perceived the great advantage possessed by those who received a classical education. I had read Byron's "Childe Harold"... Robert White George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold: A Romaunt, Canto IV Print : Book1900-1945 'I remembered once, years before, when I was a child of thirteen, listening in half-fascinated terror to a mistress at St. Monica's reading "Childe Roland to the Dark Tow... Vera Brittain Robert Browning Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came Print : Book1700-1799 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward Thomas Stanley Hornby Childhood (?) Print : Book1850-1899 "'At a critical juncture', as she put it [in her autobiography] ... [Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence] read a novel which appealed directly to her combined desires for independe... Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence Walter Besant Children of Gibeon Print : Book1900-1945 '[Owen] bought [Harold] Monro's latest book, "Children of Love", and became a familiar visitor [at the Poetry Bookshop]. He was impressed by the war poems in "Children of... Wilfred Owen Harold Monro Children of Love Print : Book1850-1899 'Have you read Phillpotts? Children of the Mist? It is a great book.'
Arnold Bennett Eden Phillpotts Children of the Mist Print : Book1900-1945 'Excellent, the last number of "Maga".especially [...] Neil Munro's instalment'
Joseph Conrad Neil Munro Children of the Tempest Part 2 Print : Serial / periodical
