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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Madam, I can hardly feel that I am addressing an entire stranger in the author of "Our Village", and yet I know it is right and proper that I should apologize for the li...Felicia Hemans Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'We have not got a circulating library. It was too near Glasgow to thrive, and I am no ways acquainted in Glasgow. I am, therefore, famishing for the want of books. I ha...Mary Russell MitfordFanny's FairingsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Dear Madam, Accept my best thanks for the copy of "Rienzi", and allow me to assure you that it has not been thrown away, for, as [Rev William] Harness can bear witness, ...Alexander Dyce Mary Russell MitfordRienziPrint: Book
1800-1849'Let me tell you that I never see a paper professing to give literary news from England without anxiously looking for your name.. I have read whole pages of extracts from...Frances Trollope Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [....G.E. Lynch Cotton Mary Russell MitfordTragediesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Madam, Having understood from a friend that you wished to obtain the words of "The Bann of the Church of the German Empire," I take the liberty of sending them to you [....G.E. Lynch Cotton Andre-Guillaume Contant-d'OrvilleLes Anecdotes GermaniquesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I think Mrs Hall's book beautiful, but am not in love with her dedicatory letter [to Mary Russell Mitford]. It is meagre.'Barbara Hofland Mrs S.C. HallSketches of Irish CharacterPrint: Book
1800-1849'In your delightful sketch of Grace Nugent I was much amused by the donkey messengers. Such mercuries are common in Suffold, and I greeted your boys as old acquaintances...Susanna Strickland Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford, I cannot employ the formal address of a stranger towards one who has inspired the vivid feeling of intimate acquaintance, a deep and affectionate i...Catharine M. Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford,I cannot miss the opportunity my aunt allows me of writing to the author of "Our Village," to express my interest in her, and in the perusal of her ...Kate Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'She speaks of "Inez" as about to be produced. I have been long expecting to hear that it was out. Do you remember reading it to me (excepting the fourth act, which was n...Fanny Trollope Mary Russell MitfordInezManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'My dear Miss Mitford, May I be permitted to address thus familiarly a lady with whom, though not personally acquainted, I have long been on terms of intimacy, and for wh...Emma Roberts Mary Russell MitfordworksPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I was not lucky enough to see Miss Sedgwick, but I will transcribe for you a passage from the journal of a lady, which has just been lent me...'Fanny Trollope unknownjournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'It has made me extravagant, for I have ordered the four other volumes. the work is perfectly unique. I know nothing like it in any language, and it is among the few to ...Fanny Trollope Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'I was reading your inimitable description of Dora Creswell the other day to a friend of mine who was confined to his bed by illness. He laughed and cried by turns, and a...Catharine M. Sedgwick Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both my husband and myself have always derived from your w...Mary Howitt Mary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'Shall I confess to you that I have some dread of this wonderful lady [Harriet Martineau]...I agree with a good, simple lady of my acquaintance that "political economy is...Catharine Sedgwick Harriet Martineauworks on political economyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The most truly English sketches in the language are your country volumes. Well, through these volumes we have been wending this winter. We had read them before, and many...Mary and William HowittMary Russell MitfordOur Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scene...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with ...Barbara Hofland Mary Russell MitfordBelford Regis, or, Sketches of a Country TownPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just finished Fanny Kemble's books, and when I say that I read them the next after your most charming volumes, and was amused, and on the whole much pleased with ...Barbara Hofland Fanny KembleunknownPrint: Book


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