√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'This morning I received a copy of Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Travels), a sort of sequel to Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, which is at present stealing into what no... Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre Print : Book1800-1849 'Mister Cairlil it appears has read Sandford and Merton: he may lend it to the rest if he sees good.' James Carlyle Thomas Day The History of Sandford and Merton Print : Book1800-1849 'I am much charmed with Wilhelm Meister, the book I had begun to read with much prejudice of mind & forebodings that I should not like it, as I had been told such would ... Julia Kirkpatrick Strachey Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Print : Book1800-1849 'I would have answered your letter sooner but for a long series of movements and countermovements I have had to execute. I also wished to read Goethe's book, before dete... Thomas Carlyle Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Meister Wilhelm's Wanderjahre (first volume) Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'Is there any decent review of Meister? I have seen only one, in the London Magazine, it did not make me angry- I should have grieved to see you well treated in the same... Jane Baillie Welsh Thomas De Quincey Review of Carlyle's translation of Goethe's Wilhel... Print : Serial / periodicalManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled... Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown (trad) Jack The Giant Killer Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled... Jane Baillie Welsh Mary Martha Sherwood The Wishing Cap Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'My present sojourn is the most distressing you can imagine: the weather is so bad that one cannot cross the threshold; there is not a book in the hou[se] besides "Rutled... Jane Baillie Welsh Unknown Blue Beard Print : BookManuscript : Letter1800-1849 'How do you like Thalaba? There are always so many nothings to be done in London daily, that I have not read ten lines for the last ten weeks, till I came to Holland Hous... Matthew Lewis Marrie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand Letters Print : Book1800-1849 'I send you some verses which I read in the Examiner; I think them very witty, although very abominable'. [What follows is Charle's Lamb's poem, 'The Triumph of the Whale... Matthew Lewis Charles Lamb 'The Triumph of the Whale' Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'You say, "I wonder what you think of Trotter's Life of Fox"? Now I wonder that, supposing I had only read two paragraphs, you could have any doubt of what I must think; ... Matthew Lewis J.B. Trotter Memoirs of the latter years of the Right Honourabl... Print : Newspaper1800-1849 'I have heard of nothing good in the literary way; but I read three volumes yesterday of the strangest, dullest, and most incomprehensible trash imaginable, two or three ... Matthew Lewis Mary Wells Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Sumbel, Late Wells; o... Print : Book1800-1849 'One day, the Princess showed me a large book, in which she had written characters of a great many of the leading persons in England. She read me some of them. They were ... Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [verbal sketches of well known people] Manuscript : MS book1800-1849 'The Princess often read aloud. It was difficult to understand her germanised French, and still more, her composite English. She was particularly amused at the Margravine... Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina Princess Royal of Prussia MEMOIRS OF FREDERICA SOPHIA WILHELMINA, Princess ... Print : Book1800-1849 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, which does her honour. She said, - "its character as a w... Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Voltaire Candide Print : Book1800-1849 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, which does her honour. She said, - "its character as a w... a lady in waiting to Princess Caroline Voltaire Candide Print : Book1800-1849 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, which does her honour. She said, - "its character as a w... Charlotte Bury Voltaire Candide Print : Book1800-1849 'She finished reading to me the rest of the papers and correspondence, which at present occupy so much of her thoughts' Princess Caroline Princess of Wales [papers and correspondence] Manuscript : Personal papers relating to her marriage, banishment, her supposed adultery and that of her husband, etc.1800-1849 'I asked leave to read to Her Royal Highness, and I began 'Les Malheurs de l'Inconstance'.' Charlotte Bury C.J. Dorat Les Malheurs de l'Inconstance Print : Book1800-1849 'I was shown today some verses by an accomplished man, which made me wish to be a free agent, and to visit the scenes which he describes so well. Mr Keppel Craven address... Charlotte Bury Walter Arthur Keppel Craven Unknown
