√ Century of Experience Evidence Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group Author of Text Title of Text Form of Text 1900-1945 'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" and a "drab, poorly lit" reading room, but it offered ... Percy Wall Review of Reviews Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Thomas Westwood to Elizabeth Barrett, 26 September 1843:
'Browning, I have read but little of -- indeed "Pippa passes" -- is almost the only poem of his
that I have ... Thomas Westwood Elizabeth Barrett review of Richard Hengist Horne, Orion Print : Serial / periodical1600-1699 "[John] Martyn revealed sheets of the [Philosophical] Transactions [containing Henry Oldenburg's remarks on Robert Hooke's Description of Helioscopes] to Hooke as they we... Robert Hooke Henry Oldenburg review of Robert Hooke, Description of Helioscopes Print : Serial / periodical, newly printed sheets1800-1849 Elizabeth Barrett to James Graham-Clarke, letter postmarked 12 November 1825:
'Have you met with Southey's new Poem "The Tale of Paraguay["]? The extracts I have seen... Elizabeth Barrett unknown Review of Robert Southey, A Tale of Paraguay (1825... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Friday June 29th. [...] Read the Quarterly. Review of Southey's Life of Wesley [notes several
anecdotes given in this]'. Claire Clairmont anon review of Robert Southey, The Life of Wesley (1820... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'Wednesday Sept. [...] 14th. [...] After dinner play with the children, & read Rollin. After tea
[...] read Catholic deputation with Mr. Gambs in Hessey & Taylor's Mon... Claire Clairmont review of Shute, Lord Bishop of Sarum, A Letter to... Print : Serial / periodical1900-1945 29 July: 'I'm paralysed by the task of describing a week end at Garsington. I suppose we spoke some million words between us [...] There was Gertler; Shearman & Dallas fo... Philip Morrell John Middleton Murry Review of Siegfried Sassoon, Counter-attack, and O... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '[I] read your Demonology and a Paper on St J. Long, the only thing by you in that [al]most quite despicable Magazine.' Thomas Carlyle John A. Carlyle Review of Sir Walter Scott's 'Letters on Demonolog... Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Number 24 of the [Quarterly] Review pleased Gifford very much. In writing to [John] Murray on
the subject, he said [in letter of 27 January 1815] [...] ["]I will beg yo... Wiliam Gifford Lyall review of Stewart, Philosophy of the Human Mind Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 '[Wordsworth's] first mention of ... [Francis Jeffrey, review of Robert Southey, Thalaba, in the Edinburgh Review 1 (Oct 1802)] comes in a letter of Jan. 1804 to [John] T... William Wordsworth Francis Jeffrey review of Thalaba Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Dorothy Wordsworth to Catherine Clarkson, 11 November 1814: 'I saw two sections of Hazlitt's Review [of William Wordsworth, The Excursion, in the Examiner] at Rydale, and... Dorothy Wordsworth William Hazlitt Review of The Excursion Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to have the book, which is as curious a book as any I ev... Margaret Oliphant Review of the Life of George Eliot Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 Henry James to William James, 15 February 1885: "You don't tell me whether you had any rejoinder from Godkin to the letter you wrote about the [unfavourable] review [in T... Henry James E. L. Godkin review of The Literary Remains of the Late Henry J... Print : Serial / periodical1850-1899 On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune, or that something of an extreme value had fallen in... Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Oliphant Review of The Master of Ballantrae Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed to take half the profits. "Now", said Mr Orme, "I ... Catherine Hutton Review of The Miser Married Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 'I presented my manuscript [of her novel, "The Miser Married"] to Mr. Orme. In two days it was accepted, and I agreed to take half the profits. "Now", said Mr Orme, "I ... Catherine Hutton Review of The Miser Married Manuscript : Sheet1800-1849 The Duke of Rutland to John Wilson Croker, 7 May 1849:
'I read with much interest your review of Macaulay's book. I cannot deny that I read the book itself with much a... Duke of Rutland John Wilson Croker review of Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of En... Print : Book1800-1849 Thomas Campbell to John Murray, 2 June 1809:
'I received the review, for which I thank you, and beg leave through you to express my best
acknowledgements to the unkn... Thomas Campbell Walter Scott review of Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming etc Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Felicia Hemans to a new friend in Dublin, early 1831: 'Some "Quarterly Reviews" have lately been sent to me, one of which contains an article on Byron, by which I have be... Felicia Hemans John Gibson Lockhart Review of Thomas Moore's Life of Byron Print : Serial / periodical1800-1849 Sunday 9 April 1826:
'Lockhart's Review -- Don't like his article on Sheridan's Life. There is no breadth in it, no
general views -- the whole flung away in smart bu... Walter Scott J. G. Lockhart review of Thomas Moore, Life of Sheridan Print : Serial / periodical
