√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1800-1849 'Shelley reads the life of Holcroft aloud all day' Percy Bysshe Shelley Thomas Holcroft Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft Print : Book1800-1849 'Read Clarendon - finish the life of Holcroft - read Glenarvon in the evening' Mary Godwin Thomas Holcroft Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft Print : Book1800-1849 Began Holcroft's Memoirs - his description of the life of a New-market boy very curious and interesting - I wish every literary man would write his own memoirs Thomas Moore Thomas Holcroft Memoirs of the late Thomas Holcroft, written by hi... Print : Book1800-1849 '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 'Read the life of Alfieri.' Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Victor Alfieri Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri..... Print : Book1800-1849 'Finish the life of Alfieri'. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Victor Alfieri Memoirs of the life & writings of Victor Alfieri..... Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Walter Wilson Memoirs of the Life and Times of Daniel De Foe Print : Book1850-1899 'The writer [Ford Madox Ford] never saw Conrad read any book of memoirs except those of Maxime Ducamp and the Correspondence of Flaubert; those we read daily together ove... Joseph Conrad Benjamin Franklin Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Frank... Print : Book1700-1799 Robert Southey to John May, 4 June, 1797: 'The books with me are more than I wish when moving, & fewer than I want when settled. whilst I was packing them up, a friend br... Robert Southey George Dyer Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Robert Robinso... Print : Book1800-1849 'Thursday Oct -- 20th [...] After dinner read Political Justice [...] read Memoires of Voltaire -- &
the Life of Alfieri till late [...] I am much delighted with Alfier... Claire Clairmont Victor Alfieri Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Victor Alfieri... Print : Book1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 31 February [sic] 1842:
'I have not very long done with Lewis's memoirs, -- & have actually scarcely laid aside
Hayley's A... Elizabeth Barrett William Hayley Memoirs of the Life and Writings of William Hayley... Print : Book1800-1849 '[letter to Dr S.] I submitted my half finished manuscript [to my friend Mr D. S-], which he read over with critical and minute attention. He flatters me with the assuran... Mr D.S- Elizabeth Hamilton Memoirs of the Life of Aggrippina, the wife of Ger... Manuscript : Unknown1800-1849 'Looked into Kirkman's "Life of Macklin"...' Thomas Green James Thomas Kirkman Memoirs of the life of Charles Macklin Print : Book1800-1849 'It being the Saturday previous to the annual meeting at the SS Library I was oblig[e]d to return, rather unwillingly, the "Life of Macklin" without having finished the v... Joseph Hunter James Thomas Kirkman Memoirs of the Life of Charles Macklin Esq Print : Book1850-1899 'I have possessed myself of Mrs Hutchinson, which, of course, I admire, etc'. Robert Louis Stevenson Lucy Hutchinson Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson Print : Book1800-1849 '[Tuesday] August 7th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson [...] Mrs. H speaking of the hatred which
ignorant people bear to the wise says -- "hating that light which [...] rep... Claire Clairmont Lucy Hutchinson Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Writ... Print : Book1800-1849 'Wednesday August 15th. [...] Read Mrs. Hutchinson'. Claire Clairmont Lucy Hutchinson Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ... Writ... Print : Book1800-1849 'On 29 Dec. 1806 Southey asked John May: "Have you seen the 'Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson'? Very, very rarely has any book so greatly delighted me."' Robert Southey Lucy Hutchinson Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governo... Print : Book1800-1849 'Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs' Mary Shelley J. Hutchinson Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson... to wh... Print : Book1800-1849 [Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lucy Hutchinson Memoirs of the Life of Colonel [John] Hutchinson Print : Book
