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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I [Harriet Martineau] was completely carried away by the article on St. Domingo in the Quarterly Review, (vol.xxi.) which I lighted upon, one day at this time [c.1837], ...Harriet Martineau Biographie UniversellePrint: Book
1800-1849From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'On reaching the gallery, I found that a back seat was so far better than a middle one that I should have...Harriet Martineau and two other females [Order of coronation service]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849From Harriet Martineau's account of Queen Victoria's coronation: 'I remember remarking to my mother on the impiety of the service, when a copy of it was kindly sent to me...Harriet Martineau Order of Queen Victoria's coronation servicePrint: Pamphlet
1800-1849Harriet Martineau on inspirations and research for her story 'Settlers at Hoime': 'Tait's Magazine of last year had an article of De Quincy's which made me think of snow-...Harriet Martineau Penny CyclopediaPrint: Book
1800-1849In "Memorials of Harriet Martineau", Maria Weston Chapman gives extract from letter from a schoolmate of Martineau's, who remembers reading with her 'parts of the New Tes...Harriet Martineau and friend New TestamentPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau to her mother, 17 June 1833: '[Coleridge] read me (most exquisitely) some scraps of antique English'.Samuel Taylor Coleridge "scraps of antique English"Unknown
1800-1849Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'She found out our hours of family prayer and always came in most punctually with her f...Harriet Martineau BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Mr Gilman of South Carolina to his brother, 1835, on visit from Harriet Martineau: 'Dining out frequently [...] as soon as she came home at night, and had read at my requ...Harriet Martineau hymnsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau's American Journal, 31 October 1834: 'Read Norton's excellent, but supercilious, truth-telling Preface to work in disproof of Trinitarian doctrines, and...Harriet Martineau [Institutional reports]Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 8 September 1837: 'Looked over frescoes from the Niebelungen Lied, in Penny Magazine.'Harriet Martineau Penny MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal,1 October 1837: 'This morning I read the anti-slavery documents.'Harriet Martineau Anti-slavery documentsUnknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 5 December 1837: 'Read the newspaper aloud.'Harriet Martineau newspaperPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 20 December 1837: '[italics]Afternoon[end italics] Read in the Pictorial Bible, which is to me very interesting.'Harriet Martineau Pictorial BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, [?6] January 1838: 'Read, in Blackwood, article on Mademoiselle Gautier, a devotee, -- much like other devotees, whose tales are, however, ver...Harriet Martineau article on "Mademoiselle Gautier"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finished "Pride and Prejudice." It is wonderfully clever,...Harriet Martineau (Book of) JudgesPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 15 January 1838: 'Probably the greatest day of my year. While I was reading one article in the twenty-first volume of the Quarterly, on Greek ...Harriet Martineau Article on Grecian philosophyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 16 January 1838: 'Wrote notes and letters, and then sat down to read Smedley. What a tale of privation and suffering! total deafness first, -...Harriet Martineau [Work on/by Smedley]Print: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 18 February 1838: 'Read beautiful speeches at the Lovejoy meeting in Boston, in the "Liberator."'Harriet Martineau Speeches to Boston meeting (anti-slavery?)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 30 June 1838: 'Read the Gospel of John in Porteusian Bible.'Harriet Martineau Gospel of JohnPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 26 August 1838: 'Very happy in reading American newspapers.'Harriet Martineau American newspapersPrint: Newspaper


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