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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Mary Godwin Henry Hart MilmanFazioPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for Mary's reading in early 1816. Later in the year text...Percy Bysshe Shelley Henry Hart MilmanFazioPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: '"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is in parts very fine and in others as bad. It is writ...Harriet Countess Granville MilmanFazioPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 29 September 1815: '"Fazio,' the new tragedy, is in parts very fine and in others as bad. It is writ...Lord Lansdowne MilmanFazioPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'Mary Godwin Henry Hart MilmanFazio: a tragedyPrint: Book
1900-1945'A programme consisting of the following eight anonymous essays was then proceeded with. Viz A Theory of Language - Further East. Perpetual Motion - 2 Essays by different...Members of the XII Book Club [a member of the XII Book Club]Feat of Journalism, AManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'Read my MS to George up to p.468. He was delighted with it'.George Eliot [pseud.] George Eliot (pseud.)Felix HoltManuscript: Unknown, MS of own novel
1900-1945'Read on furlough. 1917–1918.
[...]
B. General.
Hist.y of our own Times. '85–11. Gooch
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Felix Holt – [G...		Albert Ruskin Cook George Eliot (pseud.)Felix HoltPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything satisfactory about it. It leaves an impression on my mi...Margaret Oliphant George EliotFelix Holt the RadicalPrint: Book
1700-1799'Dr Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who was long intimately acquainted with him, and has preserved a few anecdotes concerning him, regretting that he was not a more diligen...Samuel Johnson Melchor de OrtegaFelixmarte de HircaniaPrint: Book
1800-1849'In a letter to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] of 10 March 1801, J[ohn] W[ordsworth] added that "Mr Lewis's poem [The Felon] is the most funny one I ever read ... "'John Wordsworth M. G. LewisFelon, TheManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799
1800-1849		'She enjoyed comic didactic novels, with Lennox's "The Female Quixote" and Barrett's "The Heroine" being especially admired..., both satires on female misreading which sh...Jane Austen Charlotte LennoxFemale Quixote, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox [sic], Smollet & Fieldin...Hester Lynch Thrale Charlotte LennoxFemale Quixote, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads aloud out of the "Female Revolutionary Plutarch"'.Percy Bysshe Shelley StewartonFemale Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biograph...Print: Book
1800-1849'Rise very late. Read in the "female revolutionary Plutarch"'.Mary Godwin StewartonFemale Revolutionary Plutarch, containing Biograph...Print: Book
1700-1799'Mrs [italics] Haywood [end italics] seems to have dropped her former luscious Stile, and, for Variety, presents us with the insipid: Her [italics] Female Spectators [end...Laetitia Pilkington Eliza HaywoodFemale Spectator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899
1900-1945		" ... from feminist literature proper ... [the Viscountess Rhondda] was led into other disciplines, reading widely in political science ... economics, psychology, sociolo...Viscountess Rhondda feminist writingsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'Finished reading Fathom [underlined].'Alfred Tennyson Tobias SmollettFerdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1700-1799'Was I to make a Scale of Novel Writers I should put Richardson first, then Rousseau; after them, but at an immeasurable Distance Charlotte Lenox, Smollet & Fielding. The...Hester Lynch Thrale Tobias SmollettFerdinand Count FathomPrint: Book
1850-1899'we went to hear the reading of Gruppe's Ferdusi. But the reading was bad and the room insufferably hot. So we came away and read Shakspeare (sic) at home'.George Eliot [Prof] GruppeFerdusiManuscript: UnknownUnknown


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