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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Read Curt. and Caroline of Litchfield. Hobhouse and Scroop Davis come to Diodati - Shelley spends the evening there & reads Germania - Several books arrive among others ...Mary Godwin Elizabeth jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de MontolieuCaroline de LichtfieldPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finish "Caroline of Litchfield" and "Marmotel's tales". Read Bertram and Christabel and several articles of the quarterly review'.Mary Godwin Elizabeth Jeanne Isabelle Pauline, Baronne de MontolieuCaroline de LichtfieldPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am a little tired of writing eulogies. I wrote one of Asch the other day, and I am writing one of Lucy Madox Roberts whose book I immensely admire.'Ford Madox Ford Elizabeth Madox RobertsTime of Man, ThePrint: Book
1900-1945'Mummy is now reading "[T]he Time of Man", so you can't have it back just yet: but you'll get it some day'.Esther Gwendolyn, 'Stella' Bowen Elizabeth Madox RobertsTime of Man, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why -- only I had been reading some story of Mrs. Sherwood's, whic...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the start of her writing career: 'I began "Amy Herbert"-- I scarcely know why...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on the anonymity of her first publication ("Stories on the Lord's Prayer", serialised in "The Cottager's Monthly Visitor" in 1840): 'I did not ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her mother's admiration for her writings: 'After my father's death, the only reading, except the Bible, which, for weeks, she would listen...Jane Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Elizabeth Missing Sewell, on her family's encouragement of her writing: 'William [Sewell's brother] had arranged to have the "Stories from the Lord's Prayer" publish...William Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Elizabeth Missing Sewell on support received in the face of criticisms of her novel [italics]Margaret Percival[end italics] for its supposedly Roman Catholic sympathies...Samuel Rickards Elizabeth Missing Sewell'little history of the early Church'Unknown
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellThe Earl's DaughterManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellMargaret PercivalUnknown
1800-1849'[italics]The Earl's Daughter[end italics] was [...] begun before my mother's death, and I read part of it to her, but she saw from the beginning that it was likely to be...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellLaneton ParsonageManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899Elizabeth Missing Sewell on the model for the domineering husband Colonel Forbes, in her novel [italics]Katherine Ashton[end italics]: 'Colonel Forbes has not in appea...Elizabeth Missing SewellKatherine AshtonPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		From letter to Elizabeth Missing Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], written in 1889 by the Rev. J. J. Lias, to acco...J. J. Lias Elizabeth Missing SewellLaneton ParsonagePrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		From letter to Eleanor L. Sewell reproduced in [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics], written on 15 December 1906 by Miss [E.] Wordsworth , ...Elizabeth Wordsworth Elizabeth Missing SewellPreparation for the Holy CommunionPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'I think I had read all he...Eleanor L. Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellworksPrint: Unknown
1800-1849
1850-1899		Eleanor L. Sewell, niece of Elizabeth Missing Sewell, in chapter 20 of [italics]The Autobiography of Elizabeth Missing Sewell[end italics]: 'Among many casual instanc...Elizabeth Missing SewellworksPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellStories on the Lord's PrayerManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I read both the few chapters of the intended tract, and the beginning of "Amy Herbert" to my sisters, and they liked them'.Elizabeth Missing Sewell Elizabeth Missing SewellAmy HerbertManuscript: Unknown


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