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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.'Anne Isabella Milbanke SismondiItalian RepublicsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[At Halnaby, on honeymoon] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Dryden's Don Sebastian, which treats of incest, and happened to ask Byron [husband] a question. He sa...Anne Isabella Lady Byron John DrydenDon SebastianPrint: Book
1800-1849'They [newly married Lord and Lady Byron] read books together, and discussed them; Scott's Lord of the Isles was sent to Byron by [John] Murray [his publisher]. It they d...Lord and Lady ByronWalter ScottThe Lord of the IslesPrint: Book
1800-1849'"You will know my secret if you will; but if I tell you, you shall be made miserable throughout your life -- I will be another Falkland to you." This reference to Godwin...Anne Isabella Lady Byron William GodwinCaleb WilliamsPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed out to her [Anne Isabella, his wife] a passage upon th...George Gordon Lord Byron Erasmus Darwinarticle 'on Diseased Volition'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'[Byron] was reading an article by [Erasmus] Darwin on Diseased Volition (a semi-anticipation of Freud) and pointed out to her [Anne Isabella, his wife] a passage upon th...Lord and Lady ByronErasmus Darwinarticle 'on Diseased Volition'Print: Unknown
1800-1849'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni -- evidently because it was t...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni -- evidently because it was t...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849'[During autumn 1817] she [Lady Byron] was well and happy with M. G. [i.e. her friend Lady Gosford] at Kirkby, reading Cicero and admiring his rejection of Expediency, "h...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Cicero  Print: Book
1800-1849'[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [Leigh]), and contrast that kind of real life with the...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849'[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [Leigh]), and contrast that kind of real life with the...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[John] Murray [Byron's publisher] sent an advance-copy of the new Harold. She [Lady Byron] read the imprecation, supposed to be spoken in the Colosseum: '"... Let me ...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III)Print: Book
1800-1849'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrote Annabella [Anne Isabella, Byron's estranged wife]....Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronDon JuanPrint: Book
1800-1849'Moore had owned that the Memoirs [of Byron] were of "such a low pot-house description" that [John Murray] could not have published them'Thomas Moore George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord John Russell George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord Holland George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holland said there were at most four or five indelicate p...Lord Rancliffe George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[Ada Byron's] mother wrote [to Ada's tutor]: "There are no weeds in her mind; it has to be planted. Her greatest defect is want of order, which mathematics will remedy. ...Ada Byron PaisleyGeometryPrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. Wi...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in The Giaour, the Fare thee well, and the Satire. Wi...Anne Isabella Lady Byron George Gordon Lord Byron'Fare thee well' (lyric verses)Print: Book


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