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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have not read the Edinburgh Magazine you mention, but if it attacks Walter Scott (or whoever it may be) for a design to ridicule the priesthood, it is as unjust as if ...Louisa Clinton [n/a]Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh Monthly MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have seen the first number of Constable's new magazine - it seems scarcely equal to Blackwood's - the last number of which has appeared. B. advertises a new one with a...Thomas Carlyle [n/a]Edinburgh observer or Town and Country MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson: 'You had been strangely misinformed of the nature of the Edinburgh Review of William [Wordsworth]'s poems [ie his Poems in Two V...Dorothy Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Walter Scott: 'In passing through Penrith I had an opportunity of seeing his [Francis Jeffrey's] last Review [of Wordsworth's Poems on Two Volumes, ...William Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth reflects on prospect that her brother William might turn to newspaper journalism for a living: 'This reminds me of the last Edinburgh Review which I sa...Dorothy Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Book Club to look at the Reviews ... have you seen the ...Dorothy Wordsworth variousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Sara Hutchinson, 16 March 1815: 'William has made a conquest of holy Hannah [More], though she had not seen the Book [The Excursion], had seen nothi...Hannah More Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Lord Lonsdale, 16 June 1819: 'I have seen the Article in the E[dinburgh]. R[eview]. [re Charities Question] - it is as your Lordship describes, feeb...William Wordsworth Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodicalUnknown
1800-1849Byron to Francis Hodgson, 20 January 1811: 'I wish to be sure I had a few books ... any damned nonsense on a long Evening. - I had a straggling number of the E[dinburgh] ...George Gordon Lord Byron VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813: 'In a "mail-coach" copy of the Edinburgh, I perceive the Giaour is 2d article.'George Gordon, Lord Byron VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 22 November 1813: 'I remember the effect of the first Edinburgh Review [containing negative review of his work] on me...George Gordon, Lord Byron VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I read in the Edinburgh Review the Remarks there made on the Hamiltonian System of acquiring languages. I think it merits being attended to from the specimens of the Ita...Robert Sharp Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the review of Tweddell's Remains where it is said that out of religious motives he refrained from animal food.'Benjamin Newton John TweddellEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The poorest review of any book that I have yet met in the Edinburgh is that of Goethe.'Benjamin Newton n/aEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'... I did this [looking over the newspaper], as usual, while I took my breakfast, which meal I now procured at a coffee shop in Bear-Street, Leicester-Square. Here I fou...Thomas Carter [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849?In my leisure hours during this year, and the years 1838 and 1839, I read the whole of Shakespeare?s dramatic works, Mr. Sharon Turner?s ?Sacred History of the Creation?...Thomas Carter [n/a]Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'After an interval of 5 hours, spent in reading the Edinr Review and excecuting various commissions, I resume my lucubrations. the unhappy carrier is not come.'Thomas Carlyle VariousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The Lambtons sent me the last Edinburgh, prematurely brought out for the Eastern article. That art: was bad enough; but North did me good, like a canter over a Scotch mo...Harriet Martineau various authorsEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been reading the new Edinburgh and much like the first article. I wonder who wrote it. The one on Ireland I like, except the sad party stuff in the last 3pp.'Harriet Martineau variousEdinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical


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