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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I read her [Miss Murray] the legend of Steenie Steenson the other night, and we agreed it was in the author's very best manner. I felt disappointed, though, at Wandering...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottWandering Willie's TalePrint: Book
1800-1849'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had so...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and one in which your cloven foot is visible. It had so...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Marginalia]: several pencil and ink annotations (some fading to illegibility) throughout text, usually of the form of a marked item within the text followed by annotatio...John Drummond Erskine Niccolo MachiavelliThe works of Nicholas Machiavel, secretary of stat...Print: Book
1800-1849'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time wa...Louisa, Lady Stuart Mary ShelleyLast Man, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the books my friends kindly sent me to while away time wa...Louisa, Lady Stuart Maria Edgeworth[Novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Are not Maria and Anny a thousand times preferable to the Miss in "Inheritance", who describes the Lakes of Cumberland?'Louisa, Lady Stuart Susan FerrierInheritance, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'draw her [Harriet, a girl LC is teaching] to such books as White's "Natural History of Selborne", but do not bother and (though I hate the word) [italics] bore [end ital...Louisa, Lady Stuart Gilbert WhiteNatural History of Selborne, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Morning PostPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Courier, The Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they have found their way into the newspapers. I did not ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][Unknown newspaper - article on Wellesley Long Cha...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the newspapers said £19,000 or £29,000. Ten thousand makes ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspapers]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of "Waverley" etc.? He said at a public meeting that the secret had been remarkably well kept, consi...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'I have been feasting upon the Demonology and Witchcraft; yet some stories freshly rung in my ears, and I am sure fully equal to any of those you tell, give me a longing ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Walter ScottLetters on Demonology and WitchcraftPrint: Book
1800-1849'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - "New Tales of a Grandfather" and "Robert of Paris". ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly Review [advertisements for forthcoming w...Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - "New Tales of a Grandfather" and "Robert of Paris". ...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a]Quarterly Review [Review of Southey's "John Bunyan...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart A.K.[fragments, including something in French]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart George Anne BellamyMemoirs of George Anne BellamyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Sophia BaddeleyMemoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley Print: Book
1800-1849'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impr...Louisa, Lady Stuart Marie-Jeanne RolandMemoirs of Madame RolandPrint: Book


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