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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be personally obnoxious to himself [John Cam Hobhouse]? ......Douglas Kinnaird George Gordon Lord ByronMemoirsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) to Lady Caroline Lamb 'which [she] is not to l...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimageUnknown
1800-1849Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - which has given me such intense pleasure as the "Burde...John Ruskin George Gordon Lord ByronThe Destruction of SennacheribPrint: Book
1800-1849"... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading Byron's 'The Corsair') ..."Anne Jemima Clough George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849" ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography], specifically mentioning Scott and Byron, led to wo...Elizabeth Sewell George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
1800-1849'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was foolish, you may think, to exchange the truths of philos...Thomas Carlyle George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold (Canto IV)Print: Book
1800-1849'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Instantly Rogers was summoned to Melbourne House, where ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though it did include some novels -- Miss Edgeworth's and B...Anne Isabella Milbanke George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimagePrint: Book
1800-1849Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of which I have been reading lately': 'Alfieri's "L...Fanny Kemble George Gordon Lord ByronunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of th...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBride of AbydosPrint: Book
1800-1849'"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always better avoided--I think the Bride of Abydos full of th...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very angry "Weep daughter" was cut out of the other edit...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronLines to a Lady WeepingPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I never saw two Women more in love with you than my favourite Lady Hamilton & her sister. They talk of you in a manner I cannot bear to hear [...] I read to them in you...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronunknownPrint: Unknown
1800-1849'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I really believe that when that day comes, I shall buy a pi...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronThe GiaourUnknown
1800-1849'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did not send them me--they are not worthy of him--trust o...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronHebrew MelodiesPrint: Book
1800-1849'"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can only weep to see how little just judgement there is...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronHebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty"Print: Book
1800-1849'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murrays shewing me some beautiful verses of yours--I do ...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronStanzas to AugustaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenever he may speak himself [underlined] Lord Byron will...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronChilde Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the ThirdPrint: Book
1800-1849'[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting me pardon for all my offenses if it is not by himsel...Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoPrint: Book
1800-1849'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have written any thing like it'.Lady Caroline Lamb George Gordon Lord ByronBeppoPrint: Book


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