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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have read both Emma and [torn and illegible]. In the first there is so little to remember, and in the last so much that one wishes to forget, that I am not inclined to...Anne Romilly Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you have sent me of Horace Walpole's letters to Lord Hert...Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool Horace Walpoleletters to Lord HertfordUnknown
1800-1849'By the bye have you read Mr C.'s "Adolphe"? It divides the whole world, and I think the general opinion seems to be that it is not worthy of the talents he is supposed t...Anne Romilly Benjamin ConstantAdolphePrint: Book
1800-1849Walter Scott to John Wilson Croker, 26 March 1826: 'I enclose a letter for your funny namesake and kinsman, whose work entertains me very much.'Walter Scott T. Crofton CrokerFairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Irela...Print: Book
1800-1849'I believe most people would say of the four-and-twenty volumes, what I have known parents of large families do of their children: "you may think them a great many, yet t...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter Scott[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart Thomas Gray[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart Quarterly Review [articles on classics]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown]Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humb...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do at Sheffield Place, and quite agree with her in likin...Louisa, Lady Stuart John Hookham FrereQuarterly Review [burlesque poetry]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Plato and tact sounds like Plato and puppy, an incongruous mixture of ancient and modern, such as only suits the language of second-rate novels. Lady Morgan, I suppose, ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Sydney, Lady MorganWoman: or, Ida of AthensPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][description of the Court of Haiti]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa Clinton [description of Court of Haiti]Print: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa Clinton Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Holroyd [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in Amer...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your reading it out of propriety and for fear the other L...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown][unknown - French? -text featuring travels in amer...Print: Unknown
1800-1849'I know not what Prince Leopold will say to it [the character of Athelstane]. He had a bad cold and Sir Robert Gardiner went to keep him company and read "Ivanhoe" to him...Robert Gardiner Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no one's behaviour can have been worse. But they (the new...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or giving one a distaste for it, they make one relish i...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book


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