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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Samuel Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Anne Romilly [unknown][novel by a lady novelist]Print: Book
1800-1849'The pleasure we had in reading "Patronage" has been even increased by reading the [torn and illegible] but I should not say we, for Sir Samuel could not get past the fir...Anne Romilly Maria EdgeworthPatronagePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.Anne Romilly [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very much'.Maria Edgeworth [n/a]Quarterly ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...elder children of Anne RomillyMaria Edgeworth[various books]Print: Book
1800-1849'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day, particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent to...Anne Romilly Henri-Benjamin Constant-de Rebecque[pamphlet on press freedom]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent t...Anne Romilly Gallois[pamphlet on press freedom]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'Benjamin Constant is writing some of the most successful pamphlets of the day., particularly one in favour of the liberty of the press which Lady Holland has just sent t...Samuel Romilly Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque[pamphlet on press freedom]Print: Pamphlet
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...Maria EdgeworthHarry and LucyPrint: Book
1800-1849'And now that I have finished all my foreign stock I may venture a few words as to your delightful little volumes which have been read with great avidity by all my elder ...children of Anne RomillyMaria EdgeworthRosamondPrint: Book
1800-1849'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Pu...Anne Romilly Maria Edgeworth[review of 'Les Peines et les Recompenses']Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'If the Quarterly Reviewers should not think proper to publish it [an article by Edgeworth] Sir Saml wishes you would let it appear in the Philanthropist, a periodical Pu...Anne Romilly [n/a]Philanthropist, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of ...Richard Lovell Edgeworth Samuel Romilly[speech on the Slave Trade]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest feeling and of cultivated eloquence. In the whole of ...Maria Edgeworth Samuel Romilly[speech on the Slave Trade]Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'The review [by Maria Edgeworth] of "Les Peines et les Recompenses" [French edition by Dumont of Bentham's treatise] cannot please Sir Js Mackintosh because it expresses ...Richard Lovell Edgeworth James MackintoshEdinburgh Review [review of Madame de Stael's 'De ...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all t...Anne Romilly Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to change my opinion, but I must be honest above all t...Maria Edgeworth Walter ScottWaverley; or, Tis Sixty Years SincePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have just been beset by two of my little boys who are deep in your little books and who beg that I will give their very best love to you. One of them, 4 and a half, sa...two sons of Anne RomillyMaria Edgeworth[children's books]Print: Book


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