√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'I received Walter Scott's Rokeby. I gazed at it with a transport of impatience, and began reading it in bed. I am already in the first canto: - my soul has glowed with w... Charlotte Bury Walter Scott Rokeby Print : Unknown1800-1849 'Talking of books, we have lately had a literary Sun shine forth upon us here, before whom our former luminaries must hide their diminished heads - a Mr Shelley, of Unive... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Percy Bysshe Shelley Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson Print : Book, Unknown1800-1849 'I also transmit Octavian, and a volume of poems written by a friend of mine. He is, poor fellow! in the last stage of a consumption; so the critics should be merciful, f... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Print : Book, Unknown1800-1849 'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. F... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Alexander Peden Print : Unknown1800-1849 'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. F... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Donald Cargill Print : Unknown1800-1849 'A propos, our [italics] ladies [end italics] are greatly shocked with the free use of scriptural phrases in the ******, and very angry with the author on that account. F... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Song of Solomon Manuscript : Unknown, verse translation by Barbara Macky1800-1849 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Anna Seward Letters of Anna Seward: Written Between the Years ... Print : Book1800-1849 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Sydney Owenson Missionary, The: An Indian Tale Print : Book1800-1849 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Walter Scott Vision of Don Roderick , The Print : Book1800-1849 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe John Ford [Plays] Print : Book1800-1849 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe John Ford Broken Heart, The Print : Book1800-1849 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Nathaniel Lee Print : Book1800-1849 'Since I have been in London I have read nothing but Miss Seward's letters and Miss Owenson's Missionary. Of Miss Seward I am bound to speak well, as she doth so of me; a... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe James Somerville Somerville Memorie of the Somervilles being a history of the... Manuscript : MS book1800-1849 'So much for books - saving that Sir John Murray hath found the whole correspondence of the Earl of Chesterfield, who flourished in King Charles the Second's time, in Bat... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'When Miss Porter's Don Sebastian came out, I expected to find the Margravine, Keppel Craven, (with whom the fair authoress was in love,) and many of my other friends the... Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Anna Maria Porter Don Sebastian Or The House Of Braganza Print : Book1800-1849 'I went to church: heard a very fine sermon. The text was taken from the Psalms. Missed the verse, and could not find it, but the meaning was that evil company corrupts g... Charlotte Bury Psalms Print : Book1800-1849 'The Princess received a letter of twenty-eight pages, from the Princess Charlotte, which looked like the writing of a chambermaid, and appeared to me wholly illegible; b... Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Princess Charlotte Letter Manuscript : Letter1800-1849 'She read one of Madame de Stael's [italics] Petits Romans [end italics], which I had lent her, and which she told me had given her great pleasure'. Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Anne Louise Germaine de Stael Holstein Petits Romans Print : Book1800-1849 'She reads a great deal, and buys all new books' Princess Caroline Princess of Wales Print : Book1800-1849 'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor his muse'. Princess Caroline Princess of Wales George Gordon, Lord Byron 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte' Unknown