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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Felicia Hemans to William Blackwood, 13 June 1827: 'I beg to thank you for your obliging letter and valuable present of books, from the perusal of which I have derived gr...Felicia Hemans Caroline Bowlespoetical/prose "pieces"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27 December 1843: 'Although not agreeing with you that the poetry of Caroline Bowles (the Birthday & the minor verses) is ...Elizabeth Barrett Caroline BowlesThe Birth-DayPrint: Book
1800-1849["The Great Drought"] is 'full of a truth like that of Defoe... that story might be bound up with the History of the Great Plague.'Mary Russell Mitford Caroline CliveThe Great DroughtPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am quite sure that you felt impelled to write these striking verses - that they would be written, that they, so to say, wrote themselves - & I rejoice at it since by n...Mary Russell Mitford Caroline CliveThe Queen's Ball: A PoemPrint: Book
1850-1899'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again....Lord Lansdowne Caroline ClivePaul FerrollPrint: Book
1850-1899'I breakfasted with Lord Lansdowne a few days ago, & we talked much about you. He recollected having met you at our house & said that he shd be very glad to do so again....Lord Lansdowne Caroline Clivepoems (unspecified)Print: Book
1700-1799'You need not be at all afraid that I should think your journal an odd composition. I am so much charmed with it that I long for the second part, and want to see the char...Louisa, Lady Stuart Caroline Dawson[journal]Manuscript: Unknown
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'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'Amongst various verses, which she insisted on my accepting, she gave me the following lines, which she said she had written as supposing them to be spoken by the Duchess...Charlotte Bury Caroline Lamb'Winter Amusements'Manuscript: Sheet
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
1800-1849'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an e...Anne Romilly Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Maria Edgeworth's brother] talked a great deal of you and of "Glenarvon". Have you read the preface of the second edition? I took it up at the Library, having read an e...Mr Edgeworth 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 have just been reading The Wife which pleases me greatly. I do not know which story I like best - They both contain such true observations - thoughts that come home to...Mary Shelley Caroline Norton"The Wife" and "Woman's Reward"Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Cornelius Mathews, 30 April 1845: 'You will see the announcement of Mrs. Norton's new poem on the "Child of the Islands", namely our little Prince...Elizabeth Barrett Caroline Norton'The Child of the Islands' (extracts)Print: Serial / periodical


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