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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Have you read Moore? I come in, I see, for a little notice once or twice. I find the Peer and Poet (and I knew it only yesterday) has dedicated a stanza or two to me in ...Sydney Smith Thomas MooreLife of ByronPrint: Book
1900-19457 August 1918: 'I was very glad to go on with my Byron [...] I'm amused to find how easily I can imagine the effect he had upon women [goes on to comment further upon B...Virginia Woolf unknownlife of ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to John Murray, 29 September 1829: 'Sir Walter [Scott] has just read the first 120 pages of Moore's "Life of Byron"; and he says they are charming...Walter Scott Thomas MooreLife of ByronUnknown
1800-1849'The first volume of "Lord Byron's Life and Letters," published on the 1st of January, 1830, was read with enthusiasm, and met with a very favourable reception. Moore say...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Thomas MooreLife of ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849Gally Knight to John Murray, 17 February 1831: 'I have seen the second volume of Moore's "Life of Byron," and though it can be matter of surprise to no one to find him...Gally Knight Thomas MooreLife of ByronPrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Shelley to John Murray, 19 January 1830: 'Except the occupation of one or two annoyances, I have done nothing but read, since I got "Lord Byron's Life." I have no...Mary Shelley Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831: 'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore...Mary Somerville Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 1)Print: Book
1800-1849Mary Somerville to John Murray, 13 January 1831: 'You have kindly afforded me a source of very great interest and pleasure in the perusal of the second volume of Moore...Mary Somerville Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 2)Print: Book
1800-1849Colonel D'Aguilar to John Murray, 15 January 1831, on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'I have sat up all the night, and devoured every line of it. As a who...Colonel D'Aguilar Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 2)Print: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray (1831), on the second volume of Moore's Life of Byron: 'No doubt there are longeurs, but really not many. The most teasing part is th...John Wilson Croker Thomas MooreLife of Byron (vol 2)Print: Book
1800-1849'Monday Jany. 17th. Read the Life of Camillus -- 'Tuesday Jany. 18th. [...] Finish the Life of Camillus.'Claire Clairmont Plutarch Life of CamillusPrint: Book
1900-1945Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's very good & amusing.'Giles Lytton Strachey Lytton StracheyLife of Cardinal ManningManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Henry James to Violet Paget, 21 October 1884: "I have just been reading the new instalment (conclusion) of Froude's Carlyle ..."Henry James James Anthony FroudeLife of Carlyle (concluding instalments)Print: Book
1700-1799'My Father had made me translate the Life of Cervantes prefixed to Don Quixote from the Spanish by way of exercise when I was learning that Language in December 1756 or J...Hester Lynch Salusbury Life of CervantesPrint: Book
1850-1899 Henry James to Charles Eliot Norton, 4 February 1872: "You, like all the world here I suppose, have been reading Forster's Dickens. It interested, but disappointed me -...Henry James John ForsterLife of Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'In Thomas Wright's Life of Charles Dickens (1935), Virginia [Woolf] had read about the novelist's affair with the actress Frances Eleanor Ternan, which lasted many yea...Virginia Woolf Thomas WrightLife of Charles DickensPrint: Book
1900-1945'I have just begun Forster's Life of Dickens again. I did not finish it before. I think that will start me off for the autumn. I want a fact book not a fiction book. Ther...Antonia White John ForsterLife of Charles Dickens, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her former governess, Selina Trimmer, 19 November 1803: 'I have only read 2 of Belsham's lives; Charles the second and James the second. Cha...Lady Harriet Cavendish BelshamLife of Charles IIPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Tuesday] [...] Octbr. 4th. [...] Begin reading the History of Charles the XII by Becker in German.' Claire Clairmont Carl Friedrich Beckerlife of Charles XIIPrint: Book
1850-1899'Your biography will always be a model work, & one of wh. the Interest is perpetual'Caroline Clive Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book


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