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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Robert Southey on "The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson" in letter to C. W. Williams Wynn, 27 November 1804: "Richardson's correspondence I should think worse than an...Robert Southey Samuel RichardsonThe Correspondence of Samuel Richardson, a selecti...Print: Book
1850-1899'I have read one half (about 900 pages) of Wodrow's Correspondence, with some improvement but great fatigue.'Robert Louis Stevenson Robert WodrowThe Correspondence of the Rev Robert WodrowPrint: 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'"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'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have nothing else to do.'Jane Austen George Gordon, Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedf...Thomas Moore George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedf...George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedf...?Richard Heber George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedf...Isaac Disraeli George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedf...George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedf...William Gifford George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedf...John Wilson Croker George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair: 'Never, in my recollection, has any work, since the "Letter of Burke to the Duke of Bedf...George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, 22 October 1821, prior to publications of Byron's plays Cain, The Two Foscari, and Sardanapalus: 'If it be not presumptuous of me to ...John Cam Hobhouse George Gordon Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1800-1849'[Letter]

'And now to tell you my opinion of the ''Corsair''. I think it beautiful beyond all his other works.'		Elizabeth Wedgwood George Gordon, Lord ByronThe CorsairPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read "The Coryston Family". Was again fitted with a uniform. Wrote to Mrs Davies.'John Frederick William Dunn Mrs Humphry WardThe Coryston FamilyPrint: Book
1900-1945''The MS heralded by your letter arrived this morning. I've had the time to read it . it is wonderfully well done: technically and in the clearness of the idea it is supe...Joseph Conrad John GalsworthyThe Cosmopolitan (eventually known as A Knight)Manuscript: Unknown
1900-1945'The subject of Tolstoy & his works was then taken. R. H. Robson gave a brief outline of his life. T. C. Elliott gave a reading from Faussett's "Inner Drama of Tolstoy". ...George Burrow Leo TolstoyThe CossacksPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Cintra Avenue
    22.IV.1938
1. Minutes of last read & approved.

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The following essays wer...		Bruce Dilks Howard SmithThe CotswoldsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849'Weeton's reading becomes important in communication with friends, but also a point of conflict: when she visits her brother and his wife, they complain that she spends a...Ellen Weeton Elizabeth HamiltonThe Cottagers of GlenburniePrint: Book


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