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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799'[EDITOR'S WORDS] The same enlightened judgment [of a friend] which had protected "The Rajah", gave its sanction to "The Modern Philosophers", notwithstanding the objecti...Mrs G- Elizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of Modern Philosophers Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] In composing this work [her "Letters on Education"], she accustomed herself to read a few letters to some sensible female, who had an interest in the su...Elizabeth Hamilton Elizabeth HamiltonLetters on EducationManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'When the first proof came home, I did not like its look in print; so stopped the press, and wrote another first chapter'.Elizabeth Hamilton Elizabeth HamiltonLetters on EducationPrint: proof
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] 'On reading the first sheets [of her "Cottagers of Glenburnie"] at her own fire-side, she was encouraged by observing, that it excited mirth. This induc...Elizabeth Hamilton Elizabeth HamiltonCottagers of Glenburnie, TheManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[EDITOR'S WORDS] She had, however, dwelt long enough on the idea [of aging] to make it the subject of a sportive poem, which she one evening read with a smiling countena...Elizabeth Hamilton Elizabeth Hamilton[poem - 'Is that Auld Age']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[letter to Hector MacNeil - H.M.] In what you say with regard to the second volume of "Letters on Education" being, in some parts, too abstruse for certain readers, you ...Hector Macneil Elizabeth HamiltonLetters on EducationPrint: Book
1800-1849'[letter to Dr S.] I submitted my half finished manuscript [to my friend Mr D. S-], which he read over with critical and minute attention. He flatters me with the assuran...Mr D.S- Elizabeth HamiltonMemoirs of the Life of Aggrippina, the wife of Ger...Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'If you happen to have heard Mr. Sullivan's conversation with me about "From Oxford to Rome' it may interest you to know that the authoress is a Miss Harris, daughter of ...Mary Russell Mitford Elizabeth HarrisFrom Oxford to RomePrint: Book
1700-1799'Th authours of the essays in prose [in "Miscellanies" published by Elizabeth Harrison] seem generally to have imitated or tried to imitate, the copiousness and luxurianc...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth HarrisonMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1800-1849"I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a critic, that I might write to Mrs Inchbald about it; ...Maria Edgeworth Elizabeth InchbaldA Simple StoryPrint: Book
1700-1799Read the 2d volume of Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature & Art'. It is a pretty little thing, not in the same way as the 'Italian'.Joseph Hunter Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtPrint: Book
1700-1799I finished Mrs Inchbald's 'Nature and Art', the second volume is not so pleasing as the first, but yet it has a very pleasing conclusion, showing the destruction of vice ...Joseph Hunter Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtPrint: Book
1800-1849'Will you answer me one more question ?Is not the "Simple Story" more pathetic than "Persuasion"?'Elizabeth Barrett Elizabeth InchbaldSimple Story, APrint: Book
1800-1849[Transcribed in Lady Caroline's hand]: ?From Nature & Art There is a word in the vocabulary more bitter, more direful in its import than all the rest?if poverty if bodil...Lady Caroline Lamb Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtUnknown
1700-1799'[William] Godwin, no mean judge of a novel's excellence, could not help lamenting the fewness of [Elizabeth Inchbald's] productions. On reading the MS. of "Nature and ...William Godwin Elizabeth InchbaldNature and ArtManuscript: Unknown
1900-1945Wednesday 23 October 1929: 'Since I have been back [apparently to London, from Sussex home] I have read Virginia Water (a sweet white grape); God; -- all founded, & tease...Virginia Woolf Elizabeth JenkinsVirginia WaterPrint: Book
1800-1849'lookd into "Maddox on the culture of flowers" and the "Flora Domestica" which with a few improvments and additions woud be one of the most entertaining books ever writte...John Clare Elizabeth KentFlora DomesticaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Recieved a parcel from Hessey with the "Magazine" & a leaf of the new poems also a present of Miss Kents "Sylvan Sketches" she seems to be a thorough bookmaker'John Clare Elizabeth KentSylvan Sketches or a Companion to the ParkPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1900-1945'I'm sorry I kept the MS so long.[...] However I've read it more than once; the difficulty was to say something useful.[...] I do not want to deface the pages tho' I have...Joseph Conrad Elizabeth Martindale Margaret HeverManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799'Mrs. Montague, a lady distinguished for having written an Essay on Shakspeare [sic], being mentioned:—Reynolds. "I think that essay does her honour." Johnson. "Yes, Sir;...Samuel Johnson Elizabeth MontaguEssay on the Writings and Genius of ShakespearPrint: Unknown


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