√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 Henry James to Hugh Walpole, 13 October 1911: 'I have just been reading the "Standard" [containing Walpole's review of James's "The Outcry"] at breakfast, and I am touche... Henry James Hugh Walpole review of Henry James, The Outcry Print : Newspaper1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 22 November 1867: "I recd. about a fortnight ago -- your letter with the review of Grimm's novel ... I liked your article very much ... It s... Henry James William James Review of Herman Grimm, Unuberwundliche Machte Manuscript : Letter1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 28 September 1872 (letter begun 22 September): "I read your Taine and admired, though but imperfectly understood it." Henry James William James Review of Hippolyte Taine, "On Intelligence" Print : Unknown1700-1799 Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are not consonant. I am no friend to the harmony with whi... Robert Southey anon Review of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recoverin... Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Robert Southey to Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, 16 January 1797: 'I begin to think that our opinions upon poetry are not consonant. I am no friend to the harmony with whi... Robert Southey anon Review of Hope, An Allegorical Sketch on Recoverin... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 Thursday 7 September 1922: 'L[eonard]. put into my hands a very intelligent review of Ulysses, in the American Nation, which, for the first time, analyses the meaning, & ... Virginia Woolf Gilbert Seldes Review of James Joyce, Ulysses Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Harriet Martineau, Journal, 23 October 1837: 'I read Whateley's review of Miss Austen. Good, but not particularly striking.' Harriet Martineau Whateley Review of Jane Austen Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Byron to P. B. Shelley, 26 April 1821, on death of Keats after adverse reviews: 'I read the review of "Endymion" in the Quarterly. It was severe. -- but surely not so sev... George Gordon Lord Byron John Wilson Croker review of John Keats, Endymion Print : Serial / periodical1700-1799 Robert Southey to Robert Lovell, 5-6 April 1794: 'I have not yet seen Priestleys reasons for quitting this country. from the review I collect that he compares the presen... Robert Southey anon Review of Joseph Priestley, The Present State of E... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'It is a considerable time since I saw Leslie's review of La Place'[s] essay on chances - and remarked with considerable surprise - the bold avowall of his sentiments on ... Thomas Carlyle Sir John Leslie [or Playfair?] review of Laplace's Essai philosophique sur les pr... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Saturday, 23 February 1828:
'I saw at the printing office [Ballantyne's] a part of a review on Leigh Hunt's Anecdotes of Byron by Wilson. It is written with power (app... Walter Scott Wilson review of Leigh Hunt, Anecdotes of Byron Unknown 1800-1849 Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1818, explaining reasons for animosity toward Robert Southey: 'I have read his review of Hunt [in the Quarterly Review], where he has at... George Gordon Lord Byron Review of Leigh Hunt, Foliage Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have ? read your criticism of my book. I will not say that you have given no twinges to my vanity; but I will say that I am in perfect charity with my critic. I should... Leslie Stephen Henry Sidgwick Review of Leslie Stephen's The Science of Ethics Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Lord Strangford to John Wilson Croker, 30 July 1853:
'You must think me an ungrateful brute not to have given you signe de vie on the subject of the last Quarterly bey... Lord Strangford John Wilson Croker review of Lord John Russell, Memoirs of [Thomas] M... Print : revised (?proof) sheets1800-1849 Mary Berry, Journal, 16 March 1811: 'I had heard from Lord Stafford, at Lady Spencer's the night before, that the "Scotch Review," with the criticism upon "Madame du Deff... Mary Berry anon Review of Mary Berry, ed., Letters of Madame du De... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Leon Edel notes re Henry James's unsigned review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism, in North American Review (July 1865): "Arnold read this review and praised it to ... Matthew Arnold Henry James Review of Matthew Arnold, Essays in Criticism Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 George Borrow to John Murray junior, 1 December 1842:
'Yesterday read "Letters from the Baltic"; much pleased with it; very clever writer; critique in
Despatch harsh... George Borrow Review of Miss Rigby, Letters from the Baltic Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'I have finished ... St Beuve's review of ''Mme d'Epinay's Memoirs'', in which he entirely ignores the horrible indecencies, which I call very immoral.' Emma Darwin Charles-Augustin Sainte- Beuve Review of Mme Epinay's Memoirs Print : Newspaper1850-1899 "And that reminds me that the last Contemporary is worth looking at, not only for Gladstone's twaddle about Ritualism, wh. has sold ten editions of the number, twaddle th... Leslie Stephen Matthew Arnold Review of Objections to Literature and Dogma Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 [Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to the Editor of the Dublin University Magazine, 6 October 1845:]
'I thank you in my own name and that of my brothers, Ellis [Emily ... The Bronte sisters review of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell Print : Serial / periodical
