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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I confess my surprise at your considering Miss Edgeworth & Miss Austen mistresses in pathos ? when the fault of both those excellent writers appears to me (if indeed tha...Elizabeth Barrett Maria EdgeworthunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'Will you answer me one more question ?Is not the "Simple Story" more pathetic than "Persuasion"?'Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth InchbaldSimple Story, APrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Aust...Elizabeth Barrett Mary HowittHome, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Howitt?s last translation from Frederika Bremer?s Swedish "The Home" charms me even more than "The Neighbours" did. The Athenaeum compares these books to Miss Aust...Elizabeth Barrett variousAthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...Elizabeth Barrett Felicia Hemans[poems]Print: Book
1800-1849'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just bel...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just bel...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I cannot help the oozing forth of my Io triumphe?although it is by no means my dearest friend, my turn for writing. Mr Kenyon came yesterday - & he had just been readin...Mr Kenyon Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'As to Miss Pickering, if there shd be anybody in the world who makes a Miss Austen of her, or a Scott of her, that body cannot be famous for his or her literary judgemen...Elizabeth Barrett [Miss] Pickering[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (*) and dates throughout the guidebook, with v.2 more heavily marked than v.1.: eg. p.376-7 against the text line 'L'Eglise de St. Francois' ...Magdalene Erskine Mariano VasiItineraire instructif de Rome ancienne et moderne ...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: marginal marks (++) throughout, one date (p. 68 'Feb, 18.19'), and very occasional comments; eg. longest example is p. 83 at the end of the section 'Tombeau...Mariano VasiItineraire instructif de Rome a Naples ou descript...Print: Book
1800-1849?As spring and autumn were our only really busy seasons, I had occasionally , during other parts of the year, considerable leisure, which, if I could procure a book that ...Samuel Bamford [unknown][works on travel and antiquities]Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]: a drawing on a blank page at end of text relates to the topic. It is an unflattering portrait of a cleric and titled 'Brother Carey' [ie William Carey orien...John Drummond Erskine Andrew FullerAn apology for the late Christian missions to Indi...Print: Book
1800-1849?There was and is so judicious a blending of light and heavy literature in "Chambers?s Journal" that their periodical has helped to educate, inform and entertain many gen...William Edwin Adams [n/a][penny bloods]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I also had some good opportunities for borrowing books; and thus read that very interesting quarto volume, Mr Park's "Travels in Africa". I also read Mr Colquhoun's larg...Thomas Carter Patrick ColquhonTreatise on the Police of the metropolisPrint: Book
1800-1849'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'Thomas Carter Charles Lamb[works]Print: Book
1800-1849'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'Thomas Carter Thomas HolcroftThe life of Thomas HolcroftPrint: Book
1800-1849'In my hours of leisure I read the works of Mr Charles Lamb, Mr Holcroft's memoirs, and the "Life of General Washington".'Thomas Carter [unknown]Life of General WashingtonPrint: Book


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