√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 Robert 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-Lytton The Last of the Barons (extract) Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 March 1843:
'Notwithstanding my admiration of Bulwer, I had the hardest & most laborious work passing
through his "Last... Elizabeth Barrett Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The Last of the Barons Print : Book1800-1849 Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter po... Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Alice, or The Mysteries Print : Book1800-1849 Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845:
'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter po... Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Ernest Maltravers Print : Book1850-1899 Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850:
'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am rea... Robert Browning Edward George Bulwer-Lytton The Caxtons. A Family Picture Print : Book1850-1899 'Harold' Sarah Good Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Harold Print : Book1850-1899 'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dicken... Henry Rider Haggard Edward George Earl Bulwer Lytton The Coming Race Print : Book1800-1849 'I have been reading with much encreased admiration Paul Clifford - It is a wonderful, a sublime book - What will Bulwer become? the first Author of the age? I do not dou... Mary Shelley Edward George Earle Bulwer Lytton Paul Clifford Print : Book1850-1899 '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,... Edwin Whitlock Edward George, Earl Bulwer Lytton [unknown] Print : Book[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Edward Gibbon Wakefield A letter from Sydney, the principal town of Austra... Print : Book1900-1945 'We ran down the S coast of Asia Minor, beautiful hills with snow on them. Printed and toned photographs; after tea sat on deck and read Mr Browne's Bubi book.'
Gertrude Bell Edward Granville Browne The Babis of Persia Print : Book1900-1945 '[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edward Harold Begbie The Cage: A Novel Print : Book1900-1945 '[Books read] April [1914:] F. Nightingale Vol. II Harriet Bickersteth Cook Edward Harold Begbie The Vigil Print : Book1850-1899 Henry James to Edward Holton James, 15 February 1896: 'For the two stories in the "Harvard Magazine" I am [...] gratefully indebted to you. I have read them with a searc... Henry James Edward Holton James two stories Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 To Miss Hunt Shirley, July 28, 1795
'I have just finished Clarendon's "History of the rebellion", which Miss Bowdler long ago desired me to read. It is extremely inte... Elizabeth Smith Edward Hyde Clarendon History of the Rebellion and civil wars in England Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Clarendon all day - Shelley writes to Albe [Byron] and other things - he finishes Lacratelle's history of the French Revolution - we walk out for a short time after... Mary Godwin Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in Eng... Print : Book1800-1849 'read Life of Clarendon' Mary Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon . . . written by ... Print : Book1800-1849 'Arrive at Florence - Read Massinger - S. begins Clarendon - reads Massinger - & Plato's Republic' Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon [probably] History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars... Print : Book1800-1849 'S. finishes the 1st vol of Clarendon - Read the little Theif [sic]' Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Print : Book1800-1849 'S reads Clarendon aloud' Percy Bysshe Shelley Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Print : Book
