Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: William Beckford

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849"The [Pierpont] Morgan [Library] copy [of Southey, A Vision of Judgement (1821)] once belonged to Byron. It contains ...anon William BeckfordAnnotations to Robert Southey, A Vision of JudgementManuscript: annotations in printed text
1800-1849'She read enormously, finding time and energy we wonder how. A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke William BeckfordVathekPrint: Book
1700-1799'Mama read the beginning of "Wateck" to us. I fell asleep'.Agathe Wynne William BeckfordVathekPrint: Unknown
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin William BeckfordVathek
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Percy Bysshe Shelley William BeckfordVathekPrint: Book
1850-1899'In a little while came the books . [..] I've read Vathek at once. C'est tres bien. What an infernal imagination! The...Joseph Conrad William BeckfordVathek, an Arabian Tale or The History of the Caliph VathekPrint: Book, Unknown
1800-1849'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ...Anne Isabella Milbanke William BeckfordVathekPrint: Book

 

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