√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ... | Margaret Oliphant | Samuel Richardson | Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ... | Margaret Oliphant | Henry Fielding | Tom Jones | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own senti... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Jenkins | Ginx's Baby | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own senti... | Margaret Oliphant | unknown | Peasant Life | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should... | Margaret Oliphant | George Chesney | Battle of Dorking | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar... | Margaret Oliphant | Collins | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar... | Margaret Oliphant | Anthony Trollope | Caesar | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I w... | Margaret Oliphant | Alexander William Kinglake | Eothen | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...' | Margaret Oliphant | Major Lockhart | [verses] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not ... | Margaret Oliphant | Alexander Allardyce | City of Sunshine | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.' | Margaret Oliphant | Alphonse Daudet | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in th... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.' | Margaret Oliphant | | Times, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | [Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his firs... | Margaret Oliphant | George MacDonald | David Elginbrod | Manuscript: MS of a book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h... | Margaret Oliphant | John Morley | Life of George Eliot | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h... | Margaret Oliphant | | Review of the Life of George Eliot | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I... | Margaret Oliphant | Laurence Oliphant | Land of Gilead, The | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'. | Margaret Oliphant | | Athenaeum | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article o... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and ... | Margaret Oliphant | A.K.H. Boyd | Taking in Sail | Print: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I th... | Margaret Oliphant | J.M. Barrie | Auld Licht Idylls | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun ... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chal... | Margaret Oliphant | | [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria] | Print: Newspaper, Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a litt... | Margaret Oliphant | A.P. Stanley | A Selection from the writings of Dean Stanley | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have... | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath -... | Margaret Oliphant | Andrew Lang | Life of Lockhart | Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book |
| 1850-1899 | I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one m... | Margaret Oliphant | Marie Corelli | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago ... | Margaret Oliphant | Amelia Hutchison Stirling | Monsieur le Comte | Manuscript: Book in MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name?... | Margaret Oliphant | Harriette Cheape | Tea at the Mains | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances... | Margaret Oliphant | Robert Louis Stevenson | Wrecker | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances... | Margaret Oliphant | Rudyard Kipling | Naulakha | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original,... | Margaret Oliphant | Sarah Grand | Singularly Deluded | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir... | Margaret Oliphant | | St James's | Print: Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh... | Margaret Oliphant | Graham Travers | Mona Maclean: Medical Student | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh... | Margaret Oliphant | F Marion Crawford | | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I see in the papers that that man Walter Scott is going to bring out shortly a collection of Anglicized versions of e... | Margaret Oliphant | | | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the At... | Margaret Oliphant | | | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up ... | Margaret Oliphant | Walter Scott | Fortunes of Nigel | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo... | Margaret Oliphant | | Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo... | Margaret Oliphant | | Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical' | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything sati... | Margaret Oliphant | George Eliot | Felix Holt the Radical | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offeri... | Margaret Oliphant | | [Advertisement of works by Lamartine] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am a... | Margaret Oliphant | | The Times | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | 'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'. | Margaret Oliphant | | Bible | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as... | Margaret Oliphant | Elizabeth Gaskell | Life of Charlotte Bronte | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ... | Margaret Oliphant | Swinburne | Threnody | Print: Newspaper |
| 1850-1899 | '[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'. | Margaret Oliphant | | [Italian] | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one... | Margaret Oliphant | Walter Scott | Journal | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I tho... | Margaret Oliphant | R.T. Davison | Life of Archibald Campbell Tait | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to t... | Margaret Oliphant | John Addington Symonds | Life of Symonds | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'. | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Night and Morning | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of ... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Caird | Sermons | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' | Margaret Oliphant | | Athenaeum | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".' | Margaret Oliphant | unknown | Review of Adam Bede | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' | Margaret Oliphant | | Blackwood's Magazine | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.' | Margaret Oliphant | ?Edward ?Bulwer Lytton | St Stephen's | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1850-1899 | 'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...]... | Margaret Oliphant | R.H. Story | | Manuscript: Sheet, work in MS |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possi... | Margaret Oliphant | A.W. Kinglake | Invasion of the Crimea | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world... | Margaret Oliphant | Edward Bulwer Lytton | Essays | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind... | Margaret Oliphant | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind... | Margaret Oliphant | Wilkie Collins | The Woman in White | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you... | Margaret Oliphant | David Wingate | My Little Wife | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart)... | Margaret Oliphant | Horatio Forbes Brown | John Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled from | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune,... | Margaret Oliphant | Robert Louis Stevenson | The Master of Ballantrae | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |