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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'[Janet Hamilton] had a heavy literary diet as a child - history by Rollin and Plutarch, Ancient Universal History, Pitscottie's Chronicles of Scotland, as well as the Sp...Janet Hamilton Robert Fergusson[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undoubtedly have curled my hair with your Examiner, witho...Jane Baillie Welsh Leigh HuntThe Wishing CapPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Percy Bysshe Shelley Print: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White John Keats Print: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White George Gordon Lord ByronChilde HaroldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Harold, and The Lady of the Lake. But his reading stop...Robert White Walter ScottThe Lady of the LakePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ...Hugh Miller Joseph Addison Print: Book, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ...Hugh Miller Alexander Pope Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to Countess Teresa Guiccioli, '[After Feb 7, 1820?]' (translated from Italian) : 'I have read the "few lines" of your note with all due attention ...'George Gordon Lord Byron Countess Teresa Guiccioli[letter]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'[Hugh Miller's] literary style was out of date: in 1834 he alluded to "my having kept company with the older English writers - the Addisons, Popes and Robertsons of the ...Hugh Miller [probably William] Robertson Print: Book
1800-1849Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[novels]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to William Bankes, 26 February 1820: 'I have more of Scott's novels (for surely they are Scott's) since we met, and am more and more delighted. I think that I even...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter Scott[poems]Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottThe Bride of LammermoorPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1820: 'Pray send me Walter Scott's new novels ... I read some of his former ones at least once a day for an hour or so. The last are too hu...George Gordon Lord Byron Walter ScottA Legend of MontrosePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Cam Hobhouse, 29 March 1820: 'I congratulate you on your change of residence, which I perceive by the papers, took place on the dissolution of King and parl...George Gordon Lord Byron [newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849Byron to Richard Belgrave Hoppner, 25 May 1820: 'A German named Rupprecht has sent me heaven knows why several Deutsche Gazettes of all which I understand neither word no...George Gordon Lord Byron German periodicalsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 7 June 1820: '[Goethe's] Faust I never read -- for I don't know German -- but Matthew Monk Lewis in 1816 at Coligny translated most of it to me viva...Matthew Gregory Lewis Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaustPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'Galignani has just sent me the Paris edition of your works (which I wrote to order), and I am glad to see my old friends with a Frenc...George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MooreWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MoorePoems of the Late Thomas LittlePrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 9 June 1820; 'I have just been turning over Little, which I knew by heart in 1803, being then in my fifteenth summer.'George Gordon Lord Byron Thomas MoorePoems of the Late Thomas LittlePrint: Book


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