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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'At a concert at the Hanover Square Rooms, some time before [Queen Victoria's accession] (I forget what year it was) the Duchess of Kent sent Sir John Conroy to me [Harri...Princess Victoria Harriet MartineauStories including "Ella of Garveloch"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'On reaching the gallery, I found that a back seat was so far better than a middle one that I should have...Harriet Martineau and two other females [Order of coronation service]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'About nine, the first gleams of the sun slanted into the abbey [...] The brightness, vastness, and dream...Harriet Martineau unknownunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'I remember remarking to my mother on the impiety of the service, when a copy of it was kindly sent to me...Harriet Martineau Order of Queen Victoria's coronation servicePrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an article of De Quincy's which made me think of snow-...Harriet Martineau Thomas De Quincey[article]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an article of De Quincy's which made me think of snow-...Harriet Martineau Sir Thomas Dick LauderFloods in MorayshirePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an article of De Quincy's which made me think of snow-...Harriet Martineau Penny CyclopediaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[A friend] one day desired to be allowed to see and criticise the first chapter of my [Harriet Martineau's] "Retrospect of Western Travel." I gave him the MS. at night;...anon Harriet MartineauRetrospect of Western TravelManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and set my imagination floating on the fjords [...] I pro...Harriet Martineau Laing[work on Norway]Print: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and set my imagination floating on the fjords [...] I pro...Harriet Martineau InglisTravelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the history of Egypt; and in preparation I have been reading ...Harriet Martineau HeerenunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 7 November 1847: 'Tomorrow morning I begin upon my (necessary) sketch of the history of Egypt; and in preparation I have been reading ...Harriet Martineau WarburtonunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to 'Mr Atkinson', 21 November 1847: 'I saw a sort of scared smile on Mrs. ----'s face the other day, when in talking about education, I said we had yet ...anon Harriet Martineauarticles on Household EducationPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (writing as Currer Bell) to Harriet Martineau, 7 November 1849: 'When C.B. first read "Deerbrook" he tasted a new and keen pleasure [...] "Deerbrook" ran...Charlotte Bronte Harriet MartineauDeerbrookPrint: Book
1800-1849'When I [Harriet Martineau] read ["Jane Eyre"], I was convinced that it was by some friend of my own, who had portions of my childish experience in his or her mind.'Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'"Currer Bell" [Charlotte Bronte] told me [Harriet Martineau] that she had read with astonishment those parts of "Household Education" which relate my own experience. It...Charlotte Bronte Harriet MartineauHousehold EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'My [Harriet Martineau's] first real interest in [Thackeray] arose from reading M. A. Titmarsh in Ireland, during my Tynemouth illness.'Harriet Martineau William Makepeace ThackerayThe Irish Sketch-Book by M. A. TitmarshPrint: Book
1800-1849In "Memorials of Harriet Martineau", Maria Weston Chapman gives extract from letter from a schoolmate of Martineau's, who remembers reading with her 'parts of the New Tes...Harriet Martineau and friend New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849Maria Weston Chapman on Harriet Martineau's story 'Mary and her Grandmother': 'I found it in the [italics]mansarde[end italics] of a Paris friend, and stood reading on th...Maria Weston Chapman Harriet MartineauMary and her GrandmotherPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to her mother, 17 June 1833: '[Coleridge] read me (most exquisitely) some scraps of antique English'.Samuel Taylor Coleridge "scraps of antique English"Unknown


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