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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 Henry FieldingHistory of Tom Jones, A FoundlingPrint: Book
1800-1849'Yesterday I had a letter from [Mrs Scott] written with characteristic eagerness about "Trevelyan".'Mrs Scott Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's "Trevelyan") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, written by his [italics] literary adviser [end italics...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper advertisements for "Trevelyan"]Print: Newspaper
1800-1849'in came the Rector with, "I have just been at the Hall, Ly Maria has just got the "Court Journal", which says "Trevelyan" was written by Ly S. of Petersham".' [n/a]Court JournalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I imagine "Glenarvon" has lost much of its merit in your eyes from not being acquainted with the different persons intended to be portrayed. Many characters are drawn I ...Anne Romilly Caroline LambGlenarvonPrint: Book
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little ...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little ...Mrs Williams Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little ...Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers ar...Lady [anon] Jane ScottTrevelyanPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers ar...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers ar...Mr Ap Rees Samuel Foote[a farce]Print: Book
1800-1849'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and almost regret my sincerity in taking notice of them...Louisa, Lady Stuart [n/a][newspaper advertisements for Jane Scott's Trevely...Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1800-1849'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, a...Louisa, Lady Stuart Ellis Cornelia KnightSir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the descriptions very exact, the history very exact; but, a...Louisa Clinton Ellis Cornelia KnightSir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] so you will see it. In his preface he talks of Racin...Louisa, Lady Stuart Francois Rene de ChateaubriandMoïsePrint: Book
1800-1849[From SHR's introduction] 'The assistance to her husband in his professional duties consisted, so we are told in another obituary notice, in reading his briefs aloud to h...Anne Romilly [unknown][legal briefs]Unknown
1800-1849'Or perhaps she [Madame de Stael] may wish to have it appear as if she thought so [that English women were less uncouth than they used to be] since she wrote the history ...Anne Romilly Germaine de StaelCorinne, or ItalyPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have seen a letter from a Gentleman in Sweden which proves that her [Madame de Stael's] Anglomania did not first arise on coming to this country. I will try if I can g...Anne Romilly [unknown][letter to Madame de Stael]Manuscript: Letter
1800-1849'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to him, I have found No 1 and 2 of Thompson's "Annals of ...Maria Edgeworth Thomas ThomsonAnnals of PhilosophyPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I was indeed surprised to find my name in "Patronage" but my surprise was principally caused by finding such honourable mention made of me and by seeing myself in compan...Samuel Romilly Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book


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