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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Waugh (the Review-man) sent me a book the other day, with a wish and an assurance that I "would write a very elegant and spirited critique on it" - which I am not so cer...Thomas Carlyle Joanna BaillieMetrical Legends of Exalted CharactersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Those latter volumes of the Allemagne will perplex you, I fear. The third in particular is very mysterious; now and then quite absurd. Do not mind it much.'Thomas Carlyle Anne Louise Germaine de Sta?l-HolsteinDe l'AllemagnePrint: Book
1800-1849'Tell David Fergusson that I am charmed with his manuscript [a handwritten copy of Carlyle's "Life of Pascal"]; it is the prettiest [that] ever was written for the Encycl...Thomas Carlyle Thomas CarlyleLife of PascalManuscript: Sheet, Handwritten copy of Carlyle's own text
1800-1849'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &...Jane Austen Sir Charles William PasleyEssay on the Military Policy and Institutions of t...Print: Book
1800-1849'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &...Jane Austen Thomas ClarksonHistory of the Abolition of the African Slave Trad...Print: Book
1800-1849'We quite run over with Books. She [JA's mother] has got Sir John Carr's Travels in Spain from Miss B. & I am reading a Society-Octavo, an Essay on the Military Police &...Jane Austen Claudius BuchananChristian Researches in AsiaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amuse...Jane Austen James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'Upon Mrs Digweed's mentioning that she had sent the Rejected Addresses to Mr Hinton, I began talking to her a little about them & expressed my hope of their having amuse...Mrs Digweed James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them. - [italics] ...Papillon FamilyJames and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'The Papillons have now got the Book [J & H Smith's "Rejected Addresses"] and like it very much; their niece Eleanor has recommended it most warmly to them. - [italics] ...Eleanor Papillon James and Horatio SmithRejected Addresses; or the new Theatrum PoetarumPrint: Book
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen John BiglandSystem of Geography and HistoryPrint: Book
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen John Barrow (ed.)Lord Macartney's Journal of the Embassy to ChinaPrint: Book
1800-1849'And what are their Biglands & their Barrows, their Macartneys & Mackenzies, to Capt. Pasley's Essay on the Military Police of the British Empire, & the Rejected Addresse...Jane Austen Sir George Steuart MackenzieTravels in IcelandPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set fairly at it & read half the 1st vol. to her - prefa...Jane Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to my Mother's too rapid way of getting on - & tho' sh...Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...Cassandra Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...Fanny Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I suppose all the World is sitting in Judgement upon the Princess of Wales's Letter. Poor Woman, I shall support her as long as I can, because she is a Woman, & because ...Jane Austen Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttelpublished letter about the status of her marriage ...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I wonder whether you happened to see Mr Blackall's marriage in the Papers last Janry. [italics] We [end italics] did. He was married at Clifton to a Miss Lewis, whose F...Jane Austen Hampshire Telegraph, Births, Marriages and Deaths ...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Lady Robert is delighted with P & P - and really [italics] was [end italics] so as I understand before she knew who wrote it - for, of course, she knows now.'Lady Robert Kerr Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book


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