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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Byron's "Detached Thoughts" (15 October 1821-18 May 1822), 5 November 1821: 'I have lately been reading Fielding over again.'George Gordon Lord Byron Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Friday 7 November 1800: 'A cold rainy morning ... I working and reading Amelia.'Dorothy Wordsworth Henry FieldingAmeliaPrint: Book
1800-1849Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Tuesday 25 November 1800: 'Very ill ... better in the Evening -- read Tom Jones ...'Dorothy Wordsworth Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'On learning that [Hall] Caine was to present twenty-four lectures in Liverpool on "Prose Fiction" ... [D. G. Rossetti] insisted that he read the works [of English noveli...Hall Caine Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
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1850-1899		?To my mind Hugo is far more dramatic in spirit than Fielding, though his method involves (as you show exceedingly well) a use of scenery & background wh. would hardly be...Leslie Stephen Henry Fielding 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 FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingPrint: Book
1850-1899'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating was stunned: "You are quoting Pope". "Ayh", replied ...Joseph Keating Henry Fielding Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		In "Yesterday's Child 1890-1909" (1937), Beryl Lee Booker remembered 'trying "Tom Jones", but abandoning it for "What Katy Did"' whilst a child (p.31).Beryl Lee Booker Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'"[Penny dreadfuls] were thrilling, absolutely without sex interest, and of a high moral standard", explained London hatmaker Frederick Willis. "No boy would be any the w...Frederick Willis Henry Fielding Print: Book
1900-1945'[Neville] Cardus read only boys' papers until quite suddenly, in adolescence, he dove into Dickens and Mark Twain. "Then, without scarcely a bridge-passage, I was deep i...Neville Cardus Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'[Harriet Grove] enjoyed novels and plays: in 1809-10, she read with pleasure in a family group a number of popular bestsellers (which in the period means largely novels ...Harriet Grove Henry FieldingJoseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1700-1799'You guess that I have not read "Amelia". Indeed I have read but the first volume. I had intended to go through with it; but I found the characters and situations so wret...Samuel Richardson Henry FieldingAmelia (1st vol.)Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
1700-1799Another great source of amusement as well as knowledge, I have met with in reading almost all the best novels (Cervantes, Fielding, Smollet, Richardson, Miss Burney, Volt...James Lackington Henry FieldingunknownPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry FieldingThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry FieldingThe History of the Adventures of Joseph AndrewsPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge Henry FieldingThe Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the GreatPrint: Book
1850-1899'It [central London] was truly a wonder world, for I seeing it not merely with my eyes of flesh but with the eyes of heightened imagination; -seeing it not only through s...Thomas A. Jackson Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'Later on I found at the bottom of a cupboard some of volumes -Addison's "Spectator", Pope's "Homer", and a few other things. My grandmother -who also devoured books in g...Thomas A. Jackson Henry Fielding[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849?I was seized last night with a violent pain in my head (fortunately, just as I had concluded my month?s work), and was immediately ordered as much medicine as would conf...Charles Dickens Henry FieldingThe Tragedy of Tragedies; or, The Life and Death o...Print: Unknown


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