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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'You ask me (pertly enough - pardon the expression) Whether I have read The Lay of the Last Minstrel - alas, only twice - And have, in addition, only the following Catalo...Sarah Harriet Burney Pietro MetastasioGiuseppe riconosciutoPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I suspect that Meta has taken up either the 5th vol. of Modern Painters, or Tyndall on Glaciers, both of which books she is reading now, and Florence is probably reading...Margaret Emily Gaskell John TyndallGlaciers of the Alps, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'The first review of "Seeds in the Wind" came along today - "The Glasgow Evening News" - Power may have done it. Overpraised - but some truth too in it: certainly a good ...William Soutar [n/a]Glasgow Evening NewsPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945'Smoke a Players "medium" and a De Reszke "Minor". I read "Glasgow Herald" (Bus strike, Britain's new Navy, etc.) and "Ayrshire Post" (Report of Ayrshire Film Society, Dr... Glasgow HeraldPrint: Newspaper
1900-1945

Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Av, 20.3.34.

Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read and approved, in the teeth of one dis...

Howard Smith Edith GoadbyGlastonburyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Karl Friedrich BahrdtGlaubens-BekanntnissPrint: Book
1800-1849'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the [D.S?] library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me.'Joseph Hunter Samuel Jackson PrattGleanings in EnglandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Returned Pratt's "Gleanings in England" to the SS Library having only read a few of the letters which did not please me;'Joseph Hunter Samuel Jackson PrattGleanings in EnglandPrint: Book
1850-1899'[letter from Mrs Ward to Gladstone] Thank you very much for the volume of "Gleanings" with its gracious inscription. I have read the article you point out to me with the...Mary Augusta Ward William GladstoneGleanings Of Past Years Print: Book
1700-1799'Read a beautiful story in Pratt [borrowed on 11 Oct] concerning a decayed merchant & his daughter who had retired into Wales & were unexpectedly relieved by the Great Jo...Joseph Hunter Samuel Jackson PrattGleanings Through Wales, Holland and WestphaliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Samuel Rogers, 29 July 1816: 'I have read "Glenarvon" ... & have also seen Ben. Constant's Adolphe ... a work which leaves an unpleasant impression ...' George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to Thomas Moore, 17 November 1816: 'By the way, I suppose you have seen "Glenarvon". Madame de Stael lent it to me to read from Copet last autumn. It seems to me ...George Gordon Lord Byron Lady Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849In the afternoon, read aloud the first 30pp. glenarvon, vol.2. Miss Goodricke called and sat a little while with us. the girls introduced me. She thanked me for the book...Anne Lister Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening'Mary Godwin Caroline Lamb (anon.)GlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Not well - read Glenarvon all day and finish it'.Mary Godwin Caroline Lamb (anon.)GlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am confined Teusday 2nd. Read Rhoda - Pastors Fire Side - Missionary - Wild Irish Girls - The Anaconda. Glenarvon - 1st Vol Percy's Northern antiquities'Mary Shelley Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Lady Caroline Lamb's] novel of Glenarvon showed much genius, but of an erratic kind; and false statements are so mingled with true in its pages, that the next generatio...Charlotte Bury Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have now read the remainder [underlined twice] nearly [end underlining] of Glenarvon! & should not give th[e Wr]iter as an Example of the good Ladies: the [wo]man abso...George Crabbe Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'I imagine "Glenarvon" has lost much of its merit in your eyes from not being acquainted with the different persons intended to be portrayed. Many characters are drawn I ...Anne Romilly Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do you not think the contrast of the manners between Melbourne House and Devonshire House [in "Glenarvon"] well drawn? One of our friends, well read in Johnson, told me ...Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book


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