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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 16 August 1751: 'I am still bewitched by the "Memoires de Sully" [...] I know none that shews the world in a more entertaining an...Catherine Talbot Maximilien de Bethune de SullyMemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth (August 1812): 'La Princesse Wilhelmine is not as interesting as she might be. There is so much detai...Harriet Countess Granville Princess WilhelmineMemoirs (vol. 1)Print: Book
1800-1849'I hope you like Horner's "Life". It succeeds extremely well here. It is full of all the exorbitant and impracticable views so natural to young men at Edinburgh; but ther...Sydney Smith Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P.Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'Here is the first volume of Horner -- thank you! It is very interesting -- but he seems to me to have had too wave...Elizabeth Barrett Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P....Print: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to John Kenyon, mid-March 1843: 'This Mr Horner is very noble & strong -- & I like him better, my dear cousin, as a whole politician .. as he gathe...Elizabeth Barrett Leonard HornerMemoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, M.P....Print: Book
1700-1799' [letter from Boswell to Johnson] What do you say of Lord Chesterfield's "Memoirs and last Letters"?' James Boswell Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of ChesterfieldMemoirs and Last LettersPrint: Book
1800-184921/8/1829 ? 'The General gave us an account of the early years of the [French] revolution, the other gentlemen assisting. The evening ended only too soon, but I read in m...Amelia Opie Louise Philippe SegurMemoirs and RecollectionsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Catherine Talbot, 16 June 1758:] 'Since I came home I have picked up [reading] at Mrs Gambieu's the Memoirs of Anne of Austria, in a vile and most...Elizabeth Carter Françoise Langlois de MottevilleMemoirs for the History of Anne of AustriaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I ought to have thanked you before for Mrs Soskice's book. I remember it had a good press when it first appeared. It certainly has a quality but it is very much like the...Joseph Conrad Juliet M. Soskice (Hueffer)Memoirs from Childhood: Reminiscences of an Artist...Print: Book
1800-1849Journals of Mary Shelley "We read part of l'Abbe Barruels histoire de Jacobinism"Percy Bysshe Shelley Augustin BarruelMemoirs illustrating the History of JacobinismPrint: Book
1800-1849Journals of Mary Shelley "We read Abbe Barruel"Percy Bysshe Shelley Augustin BarruelMemoirs illustrating the History of JacobinismPrint: Book
1800-1849'Shelley reads the History of the Illuminati out of Baruel to us.'Percy Bysshe Shelley Abbe BarruelMemoirs illustrating the History of JacobinismPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 27-28 March 1842: 'I have read the "Cavalier" -- but years ago. I must see it again. Nothing in Defoe fastened upon me m...Elizabeth Barrett Daniel DefoeMemoirs of a CavalierPrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read during 1944]: 'The Specialist; All This and Heaven Too; Antony; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Roper's Row; Tom Brown's Schooldays; Life's a Circus; The Keys of ...Hilary Spalding Siegfried SassoonMemoirs of a Fox-hunting ManPrint: Book
1800-1849'Some months since I joined with other literary folks in subscribing a petition for a pension to Mrs. G- of L-n which we thought was a tribute merited by her works as an ...Walter Scott Anne GrantMemoirs of a Highland LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The neighbours and we have set up a book-club since the beginning of the year, & I want to beg you to tell me of some [italics] booklings [end italics] for it. We have ...Caroline Clive Memoirs of a MissionaryPrint: Book
1900-194527 January 1918: 'Desmond has read some of the Newcomes lately: finds no depth, but a charming rippling conventional picturesqueness.'Desmond MacCarthy William Makepeace ThackerayMemoirs of a Most Respectable FamilyPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'The ladies did not retire till after eleven & then I laid myself down on the sofa & tried to sleep. The mosquitoes however would'ent allow anything of the kind & so afte...John Buckley Castieau Alexandre DumasMemoirs of a physicianPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 4 October [1813]: 'My whole summer's reading has been a part of two volumes of Mrs Grant's American Lady, which Southey lent to ...Dorothy Wordsworth Anne GrantMemoirs of an American LadyPrint: Book
1800-1849'The American Lady improved as we went on - but still the same faults in part recurred. - We are now in Margiana, & like it very well indeed. - We are just going to set ...Austen FamilyAnne Grant of LagganMemoirs of an American LadyPrint: Book


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