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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron to the Countess of Blessington, on Benjamin Constant's Adolphe, 6 May 1823: 'The first time I ever read it ... was at the desire of Madame de Stael ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	Benjamin Constant	Adolphe	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Byron to Wililiam Harness, 11 February 1808: 'I ... remember being favoured [while at school] with the perusal of many of your compositions ...'	George Gordon Lord Byron	William Harness	unknown	Manuscript: Unknown
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of Parent's Assistant, which with your leave, I present ...	Maria Edgeworth	Vittorio Alfieri	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience to send you The Mine. Do you think Margaret cannot li...	Maria Edgeworth	John Sargent	The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (Th...	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr...	Charles Robert Maturin	Samuel Richardson	Clarissa	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"By what unction of purity our great grand mothers were preserved when they studied Pamela without danger or disgust we know not. There are many points of Richardson?s wr...	Charles Robert Maturin	Samuel Richardson	Pamela	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?In his Sir Charles Grandison, the inherent vulgarity, egotism and prolixity of Richardson?s character breakout with a latitude unexampled and uncontrolled. His personage...	Charles Robert Maturin	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?Her next obvious defect (we hesitate to call it a defect) is a total moral inability to paint the strongest passion that can distract the human heart or agitate human li...	Charles Robert Maturin	Maria Edgeworth	Patronage	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?It would be necessary to notice here, when we profess to give a sketch of the progress of novel or romance writing, as indication of and connected with the state of mann...	Charles Robert Maturin	Charlotte Lennox	The Female Quixote	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?Cumberland attempted and failed to revive the classical English novel. We sit down in fact by Cumberlands? fireside and listen to his long dull stories as we would to th...	Charles Robert Maturin	Richard Cumberland	Arundel	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?Walpole?s Catle of Otranto, though dramatized by Jephson, has few imitations. Clara Reeve?s English Baron was the best, but even she in vain beckoned authors to cross th...	Charles Robert Maturin	Clara Reeve	The Old English Baron	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??the work of Mrs Hannah More called Coelebs in search of a wife, as not knowing well where to class it. It is too pure and too profound to be ranked with novels, and too...	Charles Robert Maturin	Hannah More	Coelebs in search of a wife	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?In the works of Fielding our credulity is not taxed for superfluous admiration by any of those faultless monsters? Fielding?s chief excellence appears to lie in the deli...	Charles Maturin	Henry Fielding	The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?The transition from the vapid sentimentality of the novel of fifty years ago to the goblin horrors of the last twenty is so strong that it almost puzzles us to find a co...	Charles Maturin	Charlotte Smith	The Old Manor House	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??in Mrs Radcliff?s romances. She was ? an extraordinary female, and her style of writing ? must be allowed to form an era in English romances. Her ignorance was nearly e...	Charles Maturin	Ann Radcliffe	The Mysteries of Udolpho	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.? ?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal of any of his long poems. There is something in the...	Charles Maturin	George Gordon, Lord Byron	Childe Harold's Pilgrimage	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably.'"	Charles Robert Maturin	Thomas Otway	Complete Plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"'Putting Shakespeare and his immediate followers out of the way, whom do you think the best dramatist?' 'Otway, Lee and Southern, unquestionably. I speak, perhaps, fr...	Charles Maturin	Thomas Southern	Complete Plays	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??Coleridge, who, en parenthesis, he disliked for a merciless attack on his tragedy. Which the ill success of the ?Remorse? had incited; and he had prepared a retaliation...	Charles Maturin	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Christabel and Other Poems	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?He ingenuously seized opportunities, when his parents were away from home, to construct his private theatricals, which he did by converting folding doors into a green cu...	Charles Robert Maturin	Nathaniel Lee	The Rival Queens, or The Death of Alexander	Print: Book

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