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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842: 'Did you ever look at -- I dont say [italics]read[end italics] -- the "Sofa" of Crebillon fils. I sent f...Elizabeth Barrett Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon filsLe Sopha, Conte MoralPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842: 'I remember [...] reading in the curious Memoires d'une femme de qualite, a mot upon Madme de Genlis who...Elizabeth Barrett Etienne Leon de Lamothe-LangonMemoires d'une Femme de Qualite sur Louis XVIII, s...Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 December 1842: 'I like Madme de Genlis in many of her writings [...] Do you know [...] the story of the Duchesse de C. ...Elizabeth Barrett Comtesse de GenlisAdele et Theodore, ou Lettres sur l'EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843: 'It is many years since I looked at Ossian; & I never did much delight in him as that fact proves. Since your ...Elizabeth Barrett James Macpherson (as 'Ossian')'Carthon'Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843: 'Did I tell you that I have been reading through an M.S. translation of the Gorgias of Plato, by a Mr Hyman of...Elizabeth Barrett Plato GorgiasManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 8 January 1843: 'Your autobiography my dear Mr Haydon is delightful! I have been deeply interested in it in all ways [....Elizabeth Barrett Benjamin Robert HaydonautobiographyManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation upon Ossian. The Miss Smiths can bear witness, t...Hugh Stuart Boyd Hugh BlairA Critical Dissertation on the Poems of OssianPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have read only a small part of Ossian [...] I have been reading a good deal of Dr Blair's Dissertation upo...Hugh Stuart Boyd James Macpherson (as 'Ossian')Ossian poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 14 January 1843: 'I have read the Letters from Palmyra. They are [...] powerfully written, in an elevated style which ris...Elizabeth Barrett William WareZenobia: or, The Fall of PalmyraPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 15 January 1843: 'I read this very morning Schindler's interesting memoirs of Beethoven'.Elizabeth Barrett Anton Felix SchindlerThe Life of BeethovenPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of an amanuensis, letter postmarked 19 January 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you, the Poems of Darthula has been read t...Hugh Stuart Boyd James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)Poems of DarthulaPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 27 January 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you, I have read some account of Ossian, and h...Hugh Stuart Boyd Encyclopedia entry on 'Ossian' controversyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to James Martin, 6 February 1843: 'Do you know that the royal Boz lives close to us -- three doors from Mr Kenyon in Harley Place? The new numbers...Elizabeth Barrett Charles DickensMartin ChuzzlewitPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Benjamin Robert Haydon, 11 February 1843: 'I wish I could send you the "Confessio amantis" -- I have read it but do not possess it -- & have bee...Elizabeth Barrett John GowerConfessio AmantisPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March 1843: 'Since I last wrote to you expressly on the Poems of Ossian; I have rea...Harriet Holmes James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)The Death of CuchullinPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, ?3 March 1843: 'Mr Kenyon calls Christopher North a "glorious brute" -- [italics]I[end italics] call him a "brute- angel" [...Elizabeth Barrett John Wilson (as Christopher North)The Recreations of Christopher North (vol. 3)Print: Book
1800-1849Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 5 March 1843: 'Here we are sound asleep. Bulwer's new Novel, "The Last of the Barons," is to be, he says, the last of Bulwer's -- ...Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-LyttonThe Last of the Barons (extract)Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I ought to have written before, dear Hunt, to thank you for the Foster Brother, which pleased me very much. The sincerity and earnestness of the author gives anim...Mary Shelley Thornton HuntFoster Brother, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The article in todays Chronicle about the curry powder [about the duke of Norfolk's suggestion that workers could alleviate hunger by dissolving it in water] is by Knox'...Mary Shelley KnoxMorning ChroniclePrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for his oppression - except that a sense that they are ...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntStories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the ...Print: Book


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