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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'As my love of books became known, I was made free of such libraries as the neighbours possessed which led to me reading some curious and unsuitable matter, old-fashioned...Hannah Mitchell Horace WalpoleThe Castle of OntrantoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Within these few days I could not have a book from the library because Mr E. had lent the "Castle of Otranto" to Miss Lowe [Love?], who happened to be there the afternoo...Joseph Hunter Horace WalpoleThe Castle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read the "Castle of Otranto", which grievously disappointed my expectations...'Thomas Green Horace WalpoleThe Castle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Sir Horace Walpole's "Mysterious Mother". There is a gusto of antiquity...'Thomas Green Horace WalpoleThe Mysterious MotherPrint: Book
1700-1799'Read Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of Richard the 3d."--doubts, which he has in some measure transfused into my mind...'Thomas Green Horace WalpoleHistoric doubts on the life and reign of King Rich...Print: Book
1700-1799'Looked over Horace Walpole's "Fugitive Pieces"...'Thomas Green Horace WalpoleWorksPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read, if you have not read, all Horace Walpole's letters, wherever you can find them; - the best wit ever published in the shape of letters'.Sydney Smith Horace Walpole[Letters]Print: Book
1800-1849'I have read since last October a good deal of the history relating to the East...: not much of books not connected with India [but included] ...; I forgot to mention a g...Mountstuart Elphinstone Horace Walpole[Works]Print: Book
1800-1849'Teusday [sic] August 8th. Ill all day. I dream I see a ghost [this sentence inserted above line]. Bathe. Read Castle of Otranto & Caleb Williams.' Claire Clairmont Horace WalpoleThe Castle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1800-1849'[in a letter from Bury's correspondent [-]] I believe I told you I had been reading Horace Walpole's Letters over again, and also Madame du Deffand's Letters to him, and...Horace WalpoleLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849'Affectation is never more tiresome and ridiculous than in a letter. Madame de Sevigne was the best letter-writer that ever existed. I would rank Swift and Lord Chesterfi...Mr Sharpe Horace WalpoleLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849Lord Liverpool to John Wilson Croker, 23 August 1824: 'I am very much obliged to you for the specimen which you have sent me of Horace Walpole's letters to Lord Hert...Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool Horace Walpoleletters to Lord HertfordUnknown
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster's Commonplace Book (1929) include section from Horace Walpole's letter of 13 November 1760 to George Montagu, describing the funer...Edward Morgan Forster Horace WalpoleLetter to George Montagu, 13 November 1760Print: Book
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1800-1849		Thursday, 1 March 1827: 'By the bye it is the anniversary of Bosworth field. In former days Richd. IIId. was always acted at London on this day [...] Walpole's Histori...Walter Scott Horace WalpoleHistoric Doubts on Richard IIIPrint: Book
1850-1899[between journal entries for 30 September and 10 October 1880] 'A visit to Dresden was richly rewarded by the acquisition of six valuable fans to add to Lady Charlotte...Charles and Lady Charlotte SchreiberHorace WalpoleWalpolianaPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 7 May 1828: 'I return, having read through, the first volume of "Horace Walpole's Letters to Mr. Mason" [discusses text further] [.....John Wilson Croker Horace Walpole'Letters to Mr Mason' vol 1Print: Book
1700-1799[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 17 August 1764:] 'Pray has Mrs M. got one of Mr Walpole's Memoirs of Lord Herbert [of Cherbury]? So few copies are dispersed, th...Catherine Talbot Horace WalpoleMemoirs of Lord Herbert of CherburyPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertain...Elizabeth Carter Horace Walpole?Royal and Noble AuthorsPrint: Book
1700-1799[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 18 March 1768:] 'I fancy you were not greatly edified by the study of Mr Walpole's book. There is always some degree of entertain...Elizabeth Carter Horace WalpoleThe Castle of OtrantoPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have held off reading Walpole's Correspondences till now. I am in the former series to Mann. At first, I was agreeably disappointed: but now my pain and disgust are gr...Harriet Martineau Horace Walpole (ed. Richard Bentley)Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, to ...Print: Book


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