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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	"I can see no difference between his case [Nathaniel Lee] and Shelley or Byron, except that they have method and he had none."	Charles Robert Maturin	Nathaniel Lee		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?Of Sir Walter Scott I have heard Maturin speak in terms of rapture. He considered his extraordinary productions the greatest efforts of human genius, and often said that...	Charles Robert Maturin	Sir Walter Scott	complete works to 1820	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??And which of the living poets fulfils your ideal standard of excellence?? ?Crabbe. He is all nature without pomp or parade and exhibits at times deep pathos and feel...	Charles Robert Maturin	George Crabbe	poetic works	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??Moore, who is a poet of inspiration, could write in any circumstances. There is no man of the age labours harder than Moore. He is often a month working out the end of ...	Charles Robert Maturin	Thomas Moore	Complete Poems and Songs	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	??And whom do you estimate after Crabbe?? ?I am disposed to say Hogg. His ?Queen?s wake? is splendid and impassioned work. I like it for its varieties and its utter si...	Charles Robert Maturin	James Hogg		Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	"Another favourite of his was Hogg, whose ballad of "Bonny Kilmery" he had by heart."	Charles Robert Maturin	James Hogg	Bonny Kilmeny	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.?	Maria Edgeworth	Charlotte Smith	Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of Nation...	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children cannot tell which story it is. Her daughter, Madame G...	Maria Edgeworth	Berquin	Ami des Enfants: select stories for the instructio...	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story for the first time. It is one of those pleasures whic...	Maria Edgeworth	Samuel Richardson	Sir Charles Grandison	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the translation which talks of her uncle Bimont's dying...	Maria Edgeworth	Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platiere	Memoirs	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Poor Godwin is a terrific example for all conjugal biography; but he has marked that path which may be avoided? The title of Mrs Owens? new work has something very charm...	Elizabeth Inchbald	William Godwin	Mary Wollstonecraft	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece...	Amelia Opie	Charles Dickens	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'The novels of Scott and Dickens had long been her favourite reading, but of late years she had become interested in the work of George Borrow, a Norfolk man who had rece...	Amelia Opie	Walter Scott	[novels]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Religion is such a consolation to a drooping spirit,that I could wish thou wouldest seek for comfort and cheerfulness in it; for God never forsakes those who turn to him....	Ellen Weeton		['Psalms']	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[review of the novel. Noted but not reproduced by the editor]	Ellen Weeton	Anne Louise Stael-Holstein	Corinna, or Italy	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Books lately read: A Journal of a tour to the Hebrides with Dr Johnson, by James Boswell, Esq. J. Boswell does appear so wonderfully simple, so surprisingly ingenuous, t...	Ellen Weeton	James Boswell	The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	I have to attend to the direction of the House, the table &c, as well as literary studies; to assist in entertaining company in the parlour; and give directions to the se...	Ellen Weeton		[books on carving]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	Miss R. staid 2 or 3 days withme; the rest of the time I was entirely alone, spending the time chiefly in reading and writing letters, until I had brought on an almost pe...	Ellen Weeton		[unknown]	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'Books lately read' Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son, 4 vols. It has been said of these letters... The first and 2nd vols appear to me unexceptionable. Of the othe...	Ellen Weeton	Philip Dormer Stanhope	Letters written by the Late Right Honourable Phili	Print: Book
	1700-1799 1800-1849	[Has spent week repairing her brother's clothes] The week after that was as much occupied in copying some songs and the music belonging to them, which my brother had lent...	Ellen Weeton		[songs and music]	Unknown

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