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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them when they first came out, having a great opinion of...Samuel Richardson William MasonElfridaPrint: Book
1700-1799'You did not tell me before, that you had read the Hermit and Alfrida. There are charming Things in both. I read them when they first came out, having a great opinion of ...Lady Bradshaigh William MasonElfridaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conve...Samuel Johnson William MasonElfridaPrint: Book
1700-1799'The "Odes to Obscurity and Oblivion," in ridicule of "cool Mason and warm Gray", being mentioned, Johnson said, "They are Colman's best things." [Boswell reports a conve...James Boswell William MasonElfridaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I often wondered at his [Johnson's] low estimation of the writings of Gray and Mason. Of Gray's poetry I have, in a former part of this work, expressed my high opinion; ...James Boswell William MasonElfridaPrint: Book
1700-1799Letter to Miss Ewing April 18, 1779 'I do not know whether you will view this in the same light, but I think it is the most affecting and heroic instance of true friendsh...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Jean Jacques RousseauEliosaPrint: Book
1800-1849'What are you reading? I am waiting for an account of "Waverl[e]y" from you. - The principal part of my reading in addition to Mathematics &c has been "the Exiles of Sibe...Thomas Carlyle Sophie CottinElisabeth, ou les exiles de SiberiePrint: Book
1800-1849'We have a little French story in the house, called [underlined] Elizabeth [end underlining], much admired and praised: but "somehow", I have taken it into my head that i...Anna Wilbraham Marie "Sophie" CottinElisabeth, ou les Exiles de SiberiePrint: Book
1900-1945'I collected my thoughts. My ideas about prison came from American films, and I envisaged cells of which one side would be made of iron bars, all giving on to a landing,...Diana Mosley Lytton StracheyElizabeth and EssexPrint: Book
1900-1945Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poor book. I have not finished it, and am keeping it to...Virginia Woolf Lytton StracheyElizabeth and EssexUnknown
1800-1849'Of all the new works you have sent me I admire Gillies' stories by far the most. I have scarcely ever met with a work that pleased me better and was so truly congenial t...James Hogg Christian Isobel JohnstoneElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849Tuesday, 23 January 1827: 'Betwixt dinner and tea while husbanding a tumbler of whisky and water I read the new novel Elizabeth de Bruce -- part of it that is'. Walter Scott Christian Isobel JohnsonElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 27 January 1827: 'Read Elizth. de Bruce -- it is very clever but does not show much originality: the characters though very entertaining are in the manner of...Walter Scott Christian Isobel JohnsonElizabeth de BrucePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have received from you within these few months some very polite and liberal presents of new publications ; and though I was sorry you put yourself to any expense on my...Sydney Smith William Pitt Scargill [anon.]Elizabeth EvanshawPrint: Book
1900-1945'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read no... unknownElizabeth of BohemiaPrint: Book
1800-1849My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may be enumerated "The Death of Abel" which I read emphat...John Cole Elizabeth, or the Exile of SiberiaPrint: Book
1900-1945Tuesday 25 May 1937, in account of travels in France, 7-23 May 1937: 'At Rodez the best hotel in the world [...] Reading Elle et Lui, a very good best seller [by George S...Virginia Woolf George SandElle et LuiPrint: Book
1800-1849'So you have been reading my almost forgotten stories - Lady Barbara and Ellen! I protest to you their origin is lost to me, and I must read them myself before I can appl...George Crabbe George CrabbeEllenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations of his poems by Cambridge men, and read some poems of...Savile Morton and Alfred TennysonLady Georgiana FullertonEllen MiddletonPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Carlisle 8 March 1844: '"Ellen Middleton" is no longer a secret and will be out in three weeks [...] Opinions given wit...Mrs Sartoris Lady Georgiana Leveson GowerEllen MiddletonUnknown


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