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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I mentioned that Jack's letter had arrived. It was dated the day before new-years-day, and brought good tidings of the Doctor's entire prosperity. He is dissecting, an... Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Augusta Leigh, Byron's half-sister, to John Murray (July 1818): 'I return the Edinburgh Review, with a thousand thanks for your kindness in lending it to me. It will s...Augusta Leigh Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I was ... thankful for the monthly and quarterly magazines that lay on the tables of the library, for their instructive articles were equal to anything I could have hear...Vero Walter Garratt Edinburgh ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The "Edinburgh Review" will have praised "Waverley" to your hearts content. I think however they left out one of the most affecting parts of the work, which is the retur...Anne Romilly [unknown]Edinburgh Review [review of 'Waverley']Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The review [by Maria Edgeworth] of "Les Peines et les Recompenses" [French edition by Dumont of Bentham's treatise] cannot please Sir Js Mackintosh because it expresses ...Richard Lovell Edgeworth James MackintoshEdinburgh Review [review of Madame de Stael's 'De ...Print: Serial / periodical
'"The Lord of the isles" is in [the Edinburgh Review] and seems meant as a favourable review, in my opinion however it is [italics] scarce middling [end italics] as we Sc...James Hogg Edinburgh Review [review of Scott's 'Lord of the I...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Jeffrey's neat and well intended address to the Mechanics upon their combinations.'Walter Scott Francis JeffreyEdinburgh Review: Combinations of WorkmenPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899From Emily Tennyson's Journal, 1871: 'February. A. [...] read to me some of the Edinburgh Royal Society Transactions.' Alfred Tennyson Edinburgh Royal Society TransactionsPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey [unknown]Edith HeronPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'The favourite literary pabulum of us boys at school, however, was less classical: "penny bloods" and other Weeklies issued in penny sheets, such as "Sweeny Todd the Barb...Thomas Okey [unknown]Edith the CaptivePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899?Besides the standard works of our great writers, I subscribed to a few serials, mostly educational. These included "British Controversionalist", Cassell?s "Popular Educa...Thomas Burt [n/a]Educational CoursePrint: Serial / periodical
1900-1945'Just before tea, I read the ballad "Edward"; of its kind, it is as great a poem as "The Wife of Usher's Well"; there is the imprint of a fine artist upon this ballad, as...William Soutar [unknown]EdwardPrint: Book
1900-1945'Minutes of Meeting held at School House. 3rd April 1943
    R. D. L. Moore in the Chair
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read & s...		Bruce Dilks anon EdwardUnknown
1700-1799[opinion of Thomson's Edward and Elinora, entered in diary]: 'A most affecting tale, pleasingly tender - fraught with virtuous sentiments.'Anna Larpent James ThomsonEdward and ElinoraUnknown
1700-1799'At the front of D[ove] C[ottage] MS 16, in use during 1798, D[orothy] W[ordsworth] copied Marlowe's Edward II V.v.55-108, with some omissions ... The extract was copied ...Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1900-1945Virginia Stephen to Thoby Stephen, 2 November 1901: 'I have been reading Marlow [sic], and I was so much more impressed by him than I should be, that I read Cymbelin...Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1900-1945'Tomorrow I go on to Ben Jonson, but I shan't like him as much as Marlow. I read Dr Faustus, and Edward II...'Virginia Stephen Christopher MarloweEdward IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shower over the Breven as I returned (after sitting under a vast rock, rich with Alpine rose, reading Mr Ritchie's tract, "Catholick and Apostolick Church") and past awa...John Ruskin J.S. DavenportEdward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic ChurchPrint: Pamphlet, tract
1900-1945'Lovely week-end with Kit. Reached Watford about 1.30.... She is passionately interested in Polar exploration and had a book on Dr Wilson. I skimmed through. There we...Vere Hodgson George SeaverEdward Wilson of the Antarctic, Naturalist and Fri...Print: Book
1900-1945'The subject of the evening, 'Ballads', now occupied attention. From an introductory paper prepared by Mary Hayward & from readings by Rosamund Wallis we learnt what a ...R.B. Graham Edward, EdwardPrint: Unknown


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