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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending an evening with Miss Opie, to hear "Temper," which sh...Amelia Opie Amelia OpieTemper, or Domestic Scenes: A TaleManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] remember my mother and sister coming home with swollen eyes and tender spirits after spending an evening with Miss Opie, to hear "Temper," which sh...Elizabeth Martineau and daughterAmelia OpieTemper, or Domestic Scenes: A TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tis thy will and I must leave thee, oh! Thou best beloved farewell/...'Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxAmelia OpieSong of A Hindustani Girl [The Poor Hindoo]Unknown
1800-1849'The Mourner' 'The following [erased] pensive lines will accord with the sympathies of the feeling heart: the parent sinks under the loss of a beloved husband and...Molineux group, including Mrs MolineuxAmelia OpieThe Mourner: Another on the same subjectUnknown
1800-1849'In my sixth year [...] Nothing could contribute so much to my amusement as a novel. A novel at six years may appear ridiculous, but it was a real desire that I felt, ...Elizabeth Barrett Amelia OpieTemper, or Domestic ScenesPrint: Book
1800-1849'In [1802] [...] [Amelia Opie] published a volume of poems. It included those charming and well-known lines, which, as giving the key to her nature -- tenderness -- we ...James Mackintosh Amelia Opieverses opening 'Go, youth beloved...'Print: Book
1800-1849On literary life of Amelia Opie, 1804-25: 'It must have been something [...] to breakfast with Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott: the gifted man condescending to tell ...Walter Scott Amelia OpieFather and DaughterPrint: Book
1800-1849'I went to Norwich & past two Days with Mrs Opie who has written some pleasant books, particularly the [italics] Father & Daughter [end italics].'George Crabbe Amelia Alderson OpieFather and Daughter, The: a Tale in Prose, with an...Print: Book
1700-1799'Coleridge's interest in [Amos] Cottle dated back at least to May 1797, when he read his Latin poem, Italia, vastata ... 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge Amos CottleItalia, vastataUnknown
1700-1799Robert Southey to Thomas Southey, 11 November 1797: 'Amos Cottles translation of the Edda is published, & I have brought over a copy for you. you know it was my intentio...Robert Southey Amos Simon CottleIcelandic Poetry, or the Edda of Saemund Translate...Print: Book
1900-1945Upon the age of ten or eleven I moved in a world evoked by a series of volumes published by the Religious Tract Society in the Edwardian period. The outstanding authors o...Patricia Beer Amy Le Feuvre[various, unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899 'Especially effective [at transmitting conservative values to the working classes] were the pious works of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton, and Amy Le Feuvre, stories w...children and mothersAmy Le Feuvre[pious fiction]Print: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Amy Le Feuvre[pious novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'Aug. Jewish story'.Sarah Good Amy LevyReuben SachsPrint: Book
1850-1899'. I first heard of Barr?s in an article be Edward Delille in the Fortnightly. Next I read a criticism of this very book in the latest volume issued of Anatole France?s...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceLa Vie LitterairePrint: Book
1900-1945'19th March, Saturday. Spent the afternoon reading and lounging. [...] ?Jocaste? and ?Le Chat Maigre? A. France.' Gerald Moore Anatole FranceJocaste et le Chat MaigrePrint: Book
1900-1945'21st March 1929. ?Le Petit Pierre? (Anatole France).' Gerald Moore Anatole FranceLe Petit PierrePrint: Book
1900-1945'Has it ever occurred to you what a fine story, really, "The Procurator of Judaea" might have been if Anatole France had possessed in any degree the gift of construction?...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceThe Procurator of JudaeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am reading Maupassant with delight. I have just finished "Le Lys rouge" by Anatole France. it means nothing to me. I can do no serious reading. I have just begun to w...Joseph Conrad Anatole FranceLe Lys RougePrint: Book
1900-1945'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I th...Arnold Bennett Anatole FranceLa Rotisserie de la reine PédauquePrint: Book


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