√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', the 'Fare thee well', and the 'Satire'. With the first... Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George Gordon, Lord Byron Fare Thee Well Print : Book1800-1849 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', the 'Fare thee well', and the 'Satire'. With the first... Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron George Gordon, Lord Byron [a Satire - on Annabella?] Print : Book1800-1849 '[Annabella] had been reading Harriet Martineau's "Five Years of Youth", and wrote to a friend: "it is very good - chiefly directed against Romance, and therefore not nec... Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Harriet Martineau Five Years of Youth: or, Sense and Sentiment Print : Book1800-1849 "My beloved time of day was when the cloth was drawn, and I stole away from the dessert,".."and again at a subsequent time when I took to newspaper reading very heartily"... Harriet Martineau The Globe (Newspaper) Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Mary Berry to Anne Damer, from Tunbridge, 1811: 'I read a great deal every morning, and indeed often of an evening [...] I am more delighted with Mrs. Hutchinson [i.e. Lu... Mary Berry Lucy Hutchinson Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson Print : Book1800-1849 'In a poor little struggling Unitarian periodical, the Monthly Repository, in which I made my first appearance in print, a youth, named Thomas Noon Talfourd, was about th... Harriet Martineau The Monthly Repository Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 4 November 1811: 'In the evening Mrs. Damer and I read Alfieri in Italian -- but what Italian! so stuffed with Tuscanisms, so fraught with words imm... Mary Berry and Anne Damer Alfieri unknown Print : Book1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 26 February 1812: 'The morning at Devonshire House, where I found the Duke in his library with the Marquis Douglas and George Neville, who were looki... The Duke of Devonshire, Marquis Douglas, and George Neville unknown books Print : Book1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 28 May 1812: 'In the evening the Princess [?of Wales] read to us "Amelie de Mansfeldt."' Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales Madame de Cottin Amelie de Mansfeldt Unknown 1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 29 May 1812: '[Princess Charlotte] left between nine and ten o'clock [pm]. The Princess [?of Wales] then continued reading "Amelie de Mansfeldt."' Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel Princess of Wales Madame de Cottin Amelie de Mansfeldt Unknown 1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 15 June 1812: 'Called by appointment on Sir G. Beaumont to meet [George] Colman [manager of Haymarket Theatre], and read with him 'The Two Martius.' ... Mary Berry Mary Berry The Two Martius Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay, Lady C. Campbell, Mr. Lewis, Sir H. and Lady Davy,... Thomas Campbell Thomas Campbell First discourse upon Poetry Unknown 1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 9 October 1812: 'Read the newspapers, which contained the extraordinary letter of Lord Cathcart announcing the great defeat of the French, and their ... Mary Berry Lord Cathcart account of Battle of Borodino Print : Newspaper1800-1849 Uvedale Price to Mary Berry, 19 January 1813, accompanying his ode on the burning of Moscow by French forces: 'I sent an early copy to Fitzpatrick, and Rogers happening t... Uvedale Price Draft ode on French retreat from Moscow Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Read all evening' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read in the greek grammar' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown] [Greek Grammar] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read and work in the evening' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read in the morning and work' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown] [unknown] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read in the Greek grammar' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown] [Greek Grammar] Print : Book1800-1849 'Read a little in the Greek grammar' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [unknown] [Greek Grammar] Print : Book
