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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it superior to all three. I myself place it above Guy and M...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849William Blackwood to John Murray (early January 1815), on having seen a copy of Guy Mannering during a visit to his fellow publisher, Ballantyne: 'He [Ballantyne] wo...Walter ScottGuy ManneringUnknown
1800-1849'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ...Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Owen began the 'Mysteries of Udolpho'... but Mrs Owen thought it would take her up so much that...she gave her a shilling to put off reading it till she went home, ...Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the 17 February, 1856, ''Finished Guy Mannering'' was entered in her diary. This means my father finished reading it aloud to us. These evening readings to the childr...Charles Darwin Walter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849'On the 17 February, 1856, ''Finished Guy Mannering'' was entered in her diary. This means my father finished reading it aloud to us. These evening readings to the childr...The Darwin familyWalter ScottGuy ManneringPrint: Book
1800-1849William Blackwood to John Murray (early 1815): 'Yesterday I wrote a letter of thanks to Ballantyne for the delight I had received [from Guy Mannering], and expressed...William Blackwood Walter ScottGuy Mannering (vols I and II)Print: Book
1800-1849Was engaged this forenoon sorting some lint yarn, and all the rest of my spare time reading [Guy] ManneringAdam Mackie Walter ScottGuy Mannering, or the AstrologerPrint: Book
1800-1849'I saw Scott's "Waterloo" and "Guy Mannering" when I was in Edinr[.] The former has been so dreadfully abused already - that I have nothing to add to the Newspaper puns, ...Thomas Carlyle Walter ScottGuy Mannering, or The AstrologerPrint: Book
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database entries. xs denote books also read by Percy Shelley]...Mary Godwin Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The Astrologer
1800-1849'Read Tacitus - Clarke's travels & Guy Mannering - S reads Gibbon'.Mary Shelley Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The AstrologerPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Annals of Tacitus - begin Terence - read Guy Mannering'Mary Shelley Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The AstrologerPrint: Book
1900-1945(1) 'Unfortunately we have not got a complete set of Scott here - only odd Everyman copies.... What is "Guy Mannering" like? The alternative title of "The Astrologer" s...Clive Staples Lewis Walter ScottGuy Mannering; or, The AstrologerPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'The following Saturday afternoon [father] was a bit late getting home from work; he must have gone to the second-hand bookstall in the market. ...he handed me a book tha...Joseph Stamper [anon]Guy's ExpositorPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Horace & the life of Gusman d'Alfarache - S reads Clarendon aloud'Mary Shelley Mateo AlemanGuzman de AlfarachePrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish Gusman d'A. - read Horace'Mary Shelley Mateo AlemanGuzman de AlfarachePrint: Book
1900-1945Detailed summary of notes on front inside cover, flyleaf, title page, half-title page, first page of text, and rear inside cover. Very heavily annotated, with marginalia ...Vernon Lee Rudolf GoldscheidH?herentwicklung und Menschen?konomie: grundlegung...Print: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James Abraham HillhouseHadadPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East - [including] .. Revisky on Hafiz...'Mountstuart Elphinstone ReviskyHafizPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Hajji Baba" was more read than any other of [James Morier's] works. Sir Walter Scott was especially pleased with it, and remarked that "Hajji Baba" might be termed the ...Walter Scott James MorierHajji BabaPrint: Book


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