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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'All the mob of Potton made a great riot to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill, and paraded the town with the most hideous yells, accompanying a triumphal car in th...Emily Shore  Print: flags
1800-1849'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The Liberal", which hardly one of the Bibliopolists will...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I ...Jane Baillie Welsh Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon)History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England...Print: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'This evening I read Spenser's poem called 'Mother Hubbard's Tale', a very long one. It is evidently a satire on the court and clergy, and a very bitter one too.' [Editor...Emily Shore Edmund Spenser'Mother Hubbard's Tale'Print: Book
1800-1849'There is no plainer way of testifying my entire approval of the matter contained in your last letter than rigidly adhering to the plan you have sketched for me. This I ...Jane Baillie Welsh Charles RollinThe Ancient HistoryPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ev...Jane Baillie Welsh Friedrich SchillerMaria StuartPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ev...Jane Baillie Welsh Vittorio AlfieriUnknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'During the last week I have also read the latter half of 'Maria Stuart' - some scenes of Alfieri - and a portion of 'Tacitus' (which by the way is the hardest Latin I ev...Jane Baillie Welsh Publius Cornelius TacitusUnknownPrint: BookManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 May 1840: 'I had finished Napoleon & was about to write to you on the subject -- & I will still write.'Elizabeth Barrett Richard Hengist HorneThe History of NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 3 June 1840: 'Have you given up the idea of seeing Mr Darley's book again -- It chaperons or is chaperoned by some Devonshir...Elizabeth Barrett George DarleyThomas a BecketPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to George Goodin Moulton-Barrett, 17 June 1840: '["Glencoe"] never reached me until last week [...] Thank you my dearest Georgie! [...] It was, as ...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas Noon TalfourdGlencoePrint: Book
1800-1849William Charles Macready, in diary entry for 3 August 1840: 'Read Browning's play [The Return of the Druses], and with the deepest concern I yield to the belief that...William Charles Macready Robert BrowningThe Return of the DrusesManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett, invalid, to Mary Russell Mitford, 10 December 1840: 'You cant guess what my business has been lately [...] my business has been retracing my steps...Elizabeth Barrett Mary Russell MitfordOur VillagePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Thomas Powell, 24 December 1840: 'It is right to apprize you of the safe arrival [of book from Powell] [...] I see the Monthly Chronicle -- & ha...Elizabeth Barrett Thomas PowellpoemsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 28 January 1839: 'You may fancy our surprise when, upon opening the Athenaeum, on Saturday, the first thing Papa saw, w...Edward Moulton-Barrett Elizabeth Barrett'L.E.L.'s Last Question'Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839: 'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote out and sent to me the other day, Ba's ballad, unkno...George Goodin Moulton-Barrett Elizabeth Barrett'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Arabella Moulton-Barrett to Samuel Moulton-Barrett, 15 August 1839: 'Georgie [brother] is at Torquay, & he wrote out and sent to me the other day, Ba's ballad, unkno...Arabella Moulton-Barrett Elizabeth Barrett'The Legend of the Browne Rosarie'Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I have spent a stupid day reading the Abbe de Sade's Memoirs of Petrarch. What a feeble whipster was this Petrarch with all his talents! To go dangling about, for the ...Thomas Carlyle Jacques Fracois Paul Alphonse, Abbe de SadeMemoires pour la vie de Francois PetrarchPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is already past twelve o'clock, and I am tired and sleepy; but I cannot go to rest without answering the kind little note which you sent me, and acknowledging these n...Thomas Carlyle Margaret A. CarlyleLetterManuscript: Letter
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford, Your good and kind father has just given Nancy a copy of a little volume of poems, in which I find the verses on Maria's winning the cup at Ilsley ...William Cobbett Mary Russell MitfordMiscellaneous PoemsPrint: Book


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