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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very angry "Weep daughter" was cut out of the other edit...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronLines to a Lady WeepingPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I never saw two Women more in love with you than my favourite Lady Hamilton & her sister. They talk of you in a manner I cannot bear to hear [...] I read to them in you...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Farewell--not as you say so to your favourites or they to you--not as any Woman ever spoke that Word for they never mean it to be what I will make it--but as nuns & thos...Lady Caroline Lamb Robert SoutheyMadocPrint: Book
1800-1849'Sometimes I try if I can talk in that Jargon I us'd to hear but I cannot endure it & the remembrance of what you said puts all they say out--so that men hate me--today a...Lady Caroline Lamb Samuel RogersunknownUnknown
1800-1849'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I really believe that when that day comes, I shall buy a pi...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourUnknown
1800-1849'I cried over Meg Merrilies when she met Brown again--at a little Inn at Cumberland & my tears are not apt to flow'.Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half...Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'I entirely deprecate your opinion concerning Manwaring [sic--Mannering] or sooner the opinion you had borrowed for I am convinced if you had read it through or even half...Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottWaverlyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did not send them me--they are not worthy of him--trust o...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can only weep to see how little just judgement there is...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronHebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty"Print: Book
1800-1849'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murrays shewing me some beautiful verses of yours--I do ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronStanzas to AugustaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the ThirdPrint: Book
1800-1849'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb John DrydenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himsel...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoPrint: Book
1800-1849'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have written any thing like it'.Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you remember when Jeannie Deans went to London for her sister the gentle Gertie [sic--Geordie] Robertson gave her a [illegible] among the Robbers.'Lady Caroline Lamb Walter ScottThe Heart of MidlothianPrint: Book
1800-1849'I know that during Elections songs & squibs are fair on each side & much bad wit & many severe things must be said--but I am sure that neither you nor Sir Frances Burdet...Lady Caroline Lamb The StatesmanPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have been reading for the first time 2 of yr Tales & am delighted with them. They not only amuse & interest & affect extremely but they amend--and it must be a deligh...Lady Caroline Lamb Amelia OpieunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I must tell you an act of kindness of William Lamb--he has been looking over and correcting Ada Reis for me'.William Lamb Lady Caroline LambAda ReisManuscript: Unknown, William Lamb would have read either fair copies or proofs from the printer.
1800-1849'Thank you for being pleased with your visit and not displeased with Graham [Hamilton]'.William Godwin Lady Caroline LambGraham HamiltonManuscript: UnknownUnknown


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