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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & ...Sarah Harriet Burney John ScottParis revisited in 1815 by way of BrusselsPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & ...Sarah Harriet Burney Alicia Tindal PalmerAuthentic Memoirs of the Life of John SobieskiPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read both Scott's visits, and Mrs Hulse has just lent me the life of John Sobieski, K. of poland. I have only just begun it, but it promises facility of style, & ...Sarah Harriet Burney Pierre-Simon PallasTravels through the Southern Provinces of the Russ...Print: Book
1800-1849Lord Strangford to John Wilson Croker, 30 July 1853: 'You must think me an ungrateful brute not to have given you signe de vie on the subject of the last Quarterly bey...Lord Strangford John Wilson Crokerreview of Lord John Russell, Memoirs of [Thomas] M...Print: revised (?proof) sheets
1800-1849'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends ...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard BaxterBaxterianaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Pray say for me many grateful & kind things to Mr Young, with thanks for his dear Baxter, which I brought here with me, & read with pleasure very frequently. My friends ...Sarah Harriet Burney Richard BaxterOf Coversing [sic] with God in SolitudePrint: Book
1800-1849'There is here a Mrs Hutton of Birmingham with whom I have struck up an acquaintance because she wrote a clever amusing little book called "The Miser Married"'.Sarah Harriet Burney Catherine HuttonMiser Married, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it...Sarah Harriet Burney John McLeodNarrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's late ship t...Print: Book
1800-1849'Read, read, read M.Leod's Narrative of the Voyage of the Alceste to China, & her wreck in coming home. Ellis's Account of the Embassy is comparatively dull, but I had it...Sarah Harriet Burney Henry EllisJournal of the proceedings of the late embassy to ...Print: Book
1800-1849'The Hulses have been reading Mrs Delany's Letters, & never were so interested, they say, nor even [underlined] affected [end underlining] in some parts of it, by any boo...General Sir Samuel Hulse and his wifeMary DelanyLetters from Mrs Delany... to Mrs frances Hamilton...Print: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottKenilworthPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottMonastery, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Kenilworth Castle, and i trust, liked it. I greatly prefer it to the Monastery, & am almost as much pleased with it as with the Abbot: but not qu...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottAbbot, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching p...Sarah Harriet Burney Giovanni Baptista BelzoniNarrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have just begun Belzoni, & like his simple style very much. Miss Porter (Anna Maria) has published a new Novel, The Village of Mariendorpt, full of the most touching p...Sarah Harriet Burney Anna Maria PorterVillage of Mariendorpt, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Her...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottFortunes of Nigel, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the first volume of The Fortunes of Nigel, which I like much better than the Pirate. I never could feel perfectly reconciled to having a Freebooter for a Her...Sarah Harriet Burney Walter ScottPirate, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe...Sarah Harriet Burney Philippe-Paul, comte de SegurHistoire de Napoleon et de la grande armee, pendan...Print: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe...Sarah Harriet Burney Samuel PepysMemoirs of Samuel PepysPrint: Book
1800-1849'Of course you have read Segur, & Pepys, and with the latter are perhaps "mightily" weary now & then, but on the whole amused - There is a interesting History of the Towe...Sarah Harriet Burney John BayleyHistory and Antiquities of the Tower of London, th...Print: Book



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