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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in m...William Wordsworth Felicia HemansNational Lyrics and Songs for MusicPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, 20 April 1834, thanking her for the gift of a copy of her "National Lyrics and Songs for Music": 'many of the Pieces had fallen in m...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemans"Pilgrim's Song to the Evening Star"Print: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanz...William Wordsworth Felicia HemansScenes and Hymns of Life &cPrint: Book
1800-1849William Wordsworth to Felicia Hemans, September 1834, praising her verse collection "Scenes and Hymns", of which he was the dedicatee: 'This morning I have read the stanz...William Wordsworth Felicia Hemans"Elysium"Print: Book
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'The Voice of Spring'; Text = 'I come, I come ! ye have call'd me long;/ I come o'er the mountains with light and song...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia HemansThe voice of springPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'Edith, though a great reader, did not consume all and any poetry as a child; she was kept in regularly on Saturday afternoons at one time because of her refusal to learn...Edith Sitwell Felicia Hemans'Casabianca'Print: Book
1800-1849'[in 1811] Reginald Heber reads and praises "War and Peace".'Reginald Heber Felicia Dorothea BrowneWar and Peace -- A Poem. Written at the age of Fi...Unknown
1800-1849'coeurde lion at the bier of his father / new monthly magazine' [includes prose note] [transcription of poem]Mary Groom Felicia Dorothea HemansCoeur De Lion At The Bier Of His FatherPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Fairy Favours' [transcript of poem] 'Mrs Hemans'.Mary Groom Felicia Dorothea HemansFairy FavoursUnknown
1800-1849'Graves of a Household' 'They grew in beauty side by side, ...' 'Mrs Hemans'Bowly groupFelicia Dorothea HemansThe Graves of a HouseholdUnknown
1850-1899'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite...Edwin Muir Felicia Dorothea HemansCasabiancaPrint: Book
1800-1849[Transcribed into a ms volume] Title 'Lines by Mrs Hemans'; Text 'Bring flowers, young flowers, for the festal board/ To wreathe the cup ere the wine is poured;/ Bring fl...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansBring flowersPrint: Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'The Illuminated City' ; [Text] 'The hills all glow'd with a festive light/ For the Royal city rejoiced by night/ ... ...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe illuminated cityPrint: Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Title] 'From the Forest Sanctuary'; [Text] 'But the dark hours wring forth the hidden might/ Which hath lain bedded in the si...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne HemansThe forest sanctuaryPrint: Unknown
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1850-1899		[Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: [Untitled]; [Text]' ? Now I feel/ What high prerogatives belong to Death/ He hath a deep, though voiceless eloquence, /To whic...Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans[untitled]Print: Unknown
1900-1945Marginal marks and MS notes throughout, incl. v.2 giving Nov 12 1904 as the "second time of reading" and v.1 July 24, 1920: "3rd time of reading A most excellent military...George Otto Trevelyan Felix BouvierBonaparte en ItaliePrint: Book
1800-1849'Highland Hospitality' 'I once resolved to leave London for a little time [...]' 'Hermit in London'.E.E.R. Felix MacDonoghThe Hermit in London; or Sketches in English MannePrint: Book
1850-1899'Do you know the Chiffonier of Paris by F. Pyat — O my lad, that a melo! what a melo!'Robert Louis Stevenson Felix PyatChiffonier de Paris
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Fennimore Cooper[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'... therefore was my satisfaction great to receive (as I did this morning) a copy of your works with your own friendly autograph. I need not say how much I feel the hono...Alfred Tennyson Ferdinand FreiligrathEnglische Gedichte als Neurer ZeitPrint: Book


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