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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Anne Racliffe[Novels]Print: Book
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 Lucy AikinMemoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Print: Book
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...Mrs Scott Lucy AikinMemoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Print: Book
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 Clinton Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'a thousand thanks for [your letter], and for Sir John Stanley's speech, which I like very much, though I own I think he gives a little into commonplace towards the end, ...Louisa, Lady Stuart John Stanley[a speech]Unknown
1800-1849'There is a part of Sir John's speech I think quite beautiful, that which describes the sensation of vacancy; and his waiving any observations of a political nature is ex...Louisa, Lady Stuart John Stanley[a speech]Unknown
1800-1849'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to be neither intentional profaneness in the author nor...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottIvanhoePrint: Book
1800-1849'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to be neither intentional profaneness in the author nor...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jeremy TaylorRule and Exercises of Holy Living, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not read the Edinburgh Magazine you mention, but if it attacks Walter Scott (or whoever it may be) for a design to ridicule the priesthood, it is as unjust as if ...Louisa Clinton [n/a]Edinburgh MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'The former [apparently a letter from Louisa Clinton, praising LS -or someone else? - extravagantly] discomposed me, trenching upon all the old forbidden ground. Even Mad...Louisa, Lady Stuart Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'Louis 14 certainly never fell into the error Mrs Millamant cautioned her intended husband against in a clever wicked old play that you never read: "Good Mirabel, do not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart William CongreveWay of the World, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looking over the Ayrshire Legatees, which I do not like a...Louisa, Lady Stuart John GaltAyrshire Legatees, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looking over the Ayrshire Legatees, which I do not like a...Mrs Scott Walter Scott[Waverley Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looking over the Ayrshire Legatees, which I do not like a...Anne Louise Germaine, Baronne de StaelDix Années d'exilPrint: Book
1800-1849'Have you read the "Martyr of Antioch"? I read it (aloud) at Ditton, and did not like it much - heavy and dragging, I think.' Louisa, Lady Stuart Henry Hart MilmanMartyr of Antioch, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have...Louisa, Lady Stuart [unknown]Memoires de l'Europe sous NapoleonPrint: Book
1800-1849'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my own house. I piously believe them genuine; they have...Louisa, Lady Stuart Emmanuel Las CasesMemorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private ...Print: Book
1800-1849'Pray, if you love laughing, read "the [italics] Entail [end italics] or the Lairds of Grippy". It is admirable for that purpose, tho' far more broadly Scotch than I can ...Louisa, Lady Stuart John GaltEntail, The, or The Lairds Of GrippyPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have begun "Peveril", but not gone far in it. It is read aloud, and, [italics] entre nous [end italics], ill-read, and I can yet form no judgement, only I am indignan...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottPeveril of the PeakPrint: Book
1800-1849'I ought to have thanked you for "Redgauntlet" a fortnight ago, but I stayed to read it, and then to read it again. It has taken my fancy very particularly, though (not t...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottRedgauntletPrint: Book


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