| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intim... | Princess Charlotte | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Thursday 16 sept 1824. Had a visit from my friend Henderson of Milton who brought 'Don Juan' in his Pocket' [He] 'ad... | John Clare | Byron | Don Juan | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Extract from Byron's Monody on the death of Sheridan' [transcript of text] | Emma Bowly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Monody on the Death of the Right Honourable R.B. Sheridan | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sonnet on Chillon' [transcript of text] | Emma Bowly | Lord George Gordon Byron | 'Sonnet on Chillon' | Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'Our parents had accumulated a large number of books, which we were allowed to browse in as much as we liked.' | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Shakespeare incited his appetitie for poetry: Cowper, Pope, Dryden, Goldsmith, Thomson, Byron. Not only were they mor... | Joseph Barker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron had intoxicated him "with the freedom of his style of writing, with the fervour or passionateness of his feelin... | Joseph Barker | George Gordon Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'De Quincey ... in a letter to the Wordsworths of 27 May 1809 said that he had read ... [Byron, English Bards and Scot... | Thomas De Quincey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord... | William Wordsworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On 17-18 May 1812 W[ordsworth] wrote to M[ary] W[ordsworth]: "Yesterday I dined alone with Lady B. - and we read Lord... | Lady Beaumont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Writing to D[orothy] W[ordsworth] on 19 Aug. 1814, W[ordsworth] describes an incident in a Perth bookshop: "I stepped... | William Wordsworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In 1898 Armstrong organised the Ashington Debating and Literary Improvement Society, and his reading broadened out to... | Chester Armstrong | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books ... | Flora Thompson | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry... | Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Poems on Various Occasions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to William J. Bankes, on having received 'two Critical opinions, from Edinburgh' (of Lord Woodhouselee and Henry... | Henry Mackenzie | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Poems on Various Occasions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814): 'I never in my life read a composition [of his own], save to Hodg... | George Gordon, Lord Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Unknown |
| | In Byron's Journal (14 November 1813-19 April 1814), 5 December 1813, on pleasure at learning of his works' popularity... | George Frederick Cooke | George Gordon Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | Print: Book |
| | In extract from journal of George Frederick Cooke in W. Dunlap, Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke: "Read English Bards... | George Frederick Cooke | George Gordon Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 15 September 1814:
'I believe I told you of Larry and Jacquy [ie Lara and Jacqueline, poems b... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara; Jacqueline | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to his father-in-law, Sir Ralph Noel, 7 February 1816: 'I have read Lady Byron's letter -- enclosed by you to Mr... | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lady Byron | [letter] | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'Murray had written to Byron on September 12 [1816] that he had carried the manuscript of the third canto of Childe Ha... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,... | Augusta Leigh | George Gordon Lord Byron | travel journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to Thomas Moore, 25 March 1817, on Alpine travels in 1816: 'I kept a journal of the whole for my sister Augusta,... | John Murray | George Gordon Lord Byron | travel journal | Manuscript: Codex |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 9 April 1817: 'I will tell you something about [The Prisoner of] Chillon. -- A Mr. De Luc ninety... | John Andre de Luc | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Prisoner of Chillon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 15 September 1817, on what he perceives to be inferiority of contemporary authors to Pope: 'I am... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | [poems] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert White... had somewhat more progressive tastes [than Robert Story], which extended to Shelley, Keats, Childe Ha... | Robert White | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [due to the fact that books in working class communities were generally cheap out of copyright reprints, not new works... | Joseph Keating | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 6 July 1821: 'At the particular request of the Countess G[uiccioli] I have promised not to conti... | Countess Teresa Guiccioli | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan (Cantos I and II) | Print: BookManuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | Byron to John Murray, 24 November 1821, regarding his MS Memoirs: 'Is there anything in the M.S.S. that could be perso... | Douglas Kinnaird | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Leslie A. Marchand notes regarding 1812 letter in which Byron mentions sending a book (possibly Childe Harold's Pilgri... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Unknown |
| 1900-1945 | 'The son of a barely literate Derbyshire collier recalled a sister, a worker in a hosiery factory, who was steeped in ... | | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown, poetry] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | At 3 1/4 down the old bank to the library. Miss Maria Browne there. Came up to me to say her sister had so bad a cold ... | Miss Browne | George Gordon Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'finished my morning's work a few minutes before 2. Made an extract or 2 from Lord Byron's Childe Harold + the lyrics ... | Anne Lister | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[George] Moore pinpointed his ... awakening interest in fiction to overhearing his parents discussing whether Lady Au... | George Moore | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Lloyd George, the Chancellor of the Exchequer ... liked to get away from political anxieties by devouring what he cal... | Lloyd George | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Letter H. 39 - (12/10/1856) - "I don't know when I read a poem, since a boy I first read "The Assyrian came down" - wh... | John Ruskin | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Destruction of Sennacherib | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I do not like Lord Byron's English Bards and Scotch reviewers, though, as my father says, the lines are very strong a... | Maria Edgeworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | English Bards and Scotch Reviwers: a satire | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?But Lord Byron ? he must write with great ease and rapidity.?
?That I don?t know. I could never finish the perusal... | Charles Maturin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'As a collier [Joseph Keating]... heard a co-worker sigh, "Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate". Keating ... | Joseph Keating | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "... by August [1840] ... [Anne Jemima Clough admits in journal] doing 'one bad thing' (which turns out to be reading ... | Anne Jemima Clough | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | " ... Elizabeth Sewell's consumption of 'modern' works in the late 1820s and 1830s, she records [in her autobiography]... | Elizabeth Sewell | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lancashire millworker Ben Brierley read penny fairy tales and horror stories as a boy, but they did not contribute to... | Ben Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Moore's Lallah Rookh & Byron's Childe Harold canto fourth formed an odd mixture with these speculations. It was fool... | Thomas Carlyle | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold (Canto IV) | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'There were few books at home when [Harry Burton] was a boy, but one of them was "Don Juan". He read it before he was ... | Harry Burton | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'George Howell, bricklayer and trade unionist..."read promiscuously. How could it be otherwise? I had no real guide, w... | George Howell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'John Smith, Bob Hankinson, and I, went over the "Hebrew Melodies" together'. | Thomas Babington Macaulay | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e... | Allen Clarke | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Anne Grant loved books, but felt guilty about literary pleasure: she enjoyed Byron's poems but worried about their mo... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | William Henry Davies | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'In the [italics]Autobiography[end italics] he tells us of the impact of Byron on him and his friend Dave: "His influe... | [Dave, friend of W.H. Davies] anon | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leon Edel quotes John Buchan, in "Memory Hold-the-Door" (1940), pp.151-52:
'an aunt of my wife's [Lady Lovelace], ... | Henry James and John Buchan | George Gordon, Lord Byron | letters to Lady Melbourne (copies) | Manuscript: Letter |
| 1800-1849 | 'From that time [summer 1840] to the present [1845] I have not read much. I have, however, looked through Lord Byron's... | Thomas Carter | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Fanny Kemble, journal letter to Harriet St. Leger, 27 June 1835, listing 'the books just now lying on my table, all of... | Fanny Kemble | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'the diverse collection of literature that Christopher Thomson, a sometime shipwright, actor and housepainter, worked ... | Christopher Thomson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | David Vincent notes how it was in the poetry of Burns and Byron that the nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley... | Benjamin Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | The nineteenth-century labourer Benjamin Brierley would recall in his 1886 memoir having read the poetry of Byron and ... | Benjamin Brierley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Henry Chorley, in Memorials of Mrs Hemans (1836): 'after having heard those beautiful stanzas addressed to his sister ... | Felicia Hemans | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Stanzas ("My Sister -- my sweet Sister") | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Childe Harold
I have read your Book & cannot refrain from telling you that I think it & all those whom I live with &... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"perchance my dog will whine in vain
"Till fed my stranger hands--
"But long e'er I come back again
"he'd tear me ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Bride of Abydos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"Gull" & the Bulbul and a young Galeongee are just so many baits to draw sneers--which however disposed are always be... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'How you surprise me--write me but one word more [--] it is not true that he [Byron] sent word to you that he was very... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lines to a Lady Weeping | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I never saw two Women more in love with you than my favourite Lady Hamilton & her sister.
They talk of you in a mann... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I think I shall live to see the day--when some beautiful & innocent Lady Byron shall drive to your door [...] I reall... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Many a dull thing goes down by a puff--& all in all is fame Witness the Hebrew Melodies which I have though you did n... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '"She walks in beauty like the night," for example--if Mr. Twiss had written it how we should have laughed! Now we can... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies--"She walks in beauty" | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At a moment of such deep agony & I may add shame--when utterly disgraced judge Byron what my feelings must be at Murr... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Stanzas to Augusta | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[B]e not thrown into wild delight because his genius has shone forth--misfortune & rage have occasioned this & whenev... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[A]nd so you have never heard of Beppo--I think you said so at Devonshire House supper. Now Heaven fail in granting ... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Beppo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'How very very clever I think Beppo--I am quite sure it is his [Byron's]--& still more that Mr. Frere never could have... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Beppo | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I told Murray to tell you that I read his journal with sorrow & perhaps with anger'. | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | [Memoirs] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'have been reading a little on philology, have finished the 24th book of the Iliad, the first book of the Faery Queene... | George Eliot [pseud.] | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 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 | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'she asked [Byron] to recommend her some books of modern history. At present she was reading Sismondi's "Italian Repub... | Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in July appeared the first part of "Don Juan". "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected", wrote An... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare Thee Well | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece in 'The Giaour', th... | Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [a Satire - on Annabella?] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mary read to me some passages from Ld Byron's poems. I was not before so clearly aware [of] how much of the colouring... | Mary Godwin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 20 August 1814: 'Lord Rosslyn read to us "Lara," Lord Byron's new tale. It strongly marks his ma... | James Alexander, second Earl of Rosslyn | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Mary Berry, Journal, 30 August 1817, from Genoa: 'Mr. Wishaw leaves to-morrow for Florence. I showed him a sketch of ... | Mr Wishaw | George Gordon, Lord Byron | journal of travels in Switzerland (extracts) | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Title = 'Strangers by Lord Byron'; Text = 'When coldness wraps this suffer... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | George Gordon, Lord Byron | When coldness wraps this suffering clay | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | [Item transcribed into a commonplace book]: Untitled; Text = 'Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine/ A sad, sour,... | Magdalene Sharpe- Erskine | [George Gordon, Lord] [Byron] | [Don Juan - Canto the Third] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read his own [Byron's] memoirs before Murray burnt them.' | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [Memoirs] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Dear Lord Byron?
I must thank you for yr. Poem you have sent me I [this word is illegible] not say how good I think ... | Lady Sarah Jersey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poem] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received the Books, & among them the Bride of Abydos. It is very, very beautiful.' | George Canning | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos | Print: BookManuscript: Unknown |
| 1850-1899 | 'She was shocked by some of the hero's adventures but more often thrilled. Laura learned quite a lot by reading "Don J... | Flora Thompson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On a Gold Heart Which Was broken' 'Ill fated heart and can it be/...' [transcript changes the gender of the speaker] | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On the Destruction of Semnacherib/ By Byron' | Julia | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Destruction of Sennacherib | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Modern Greece/ From the Bride of Abydos'
'Know ye the land where the cypress & myrtle/...' [canto one, stanza one (... | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos OR 'Modern Greece' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'To a Lady Weeping "Weep, daughter of a royal line..."' | George or Edward Carey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'To A Lady Weeping' | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From Byron' 'The Chain I Gave Was Fair to View.../' | Julia | George Gordon, Lord Byron | From the Turkish [The Chain I Gave] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Written Beneath a Picture' 'Dear object of defeated care!/...' 'R.G.C. 1835' | 'R.G.C.' | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lines Written Beneath A Picture | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love! - ah why/That question cruel ask of me/...' [mino... | Edward or George Carey | George Gordon, Lord Byron | On Being Asked What Was the "Origin of Love" | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'A Fragment' 'When to their airy hall... [printed first line 'When, to their...] 'Byron' | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | A Fragment | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Friendship' 'O yes I will own we were dear to one another/...' [Oh! Yes, I will own we were dear to each other/...' -... | Margaret Maingay [?] | George Gordon, Lord Byron | To [George, Earl Delawarr] | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Farewell' 'Farewell! If ever fondest prayer/...' [Some differences in punctuation from Byron's text] | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Farewell! If Ever Fondest Prayer | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The Tear' 'When Friendship or Love' [Epigraph from Gray, not transcribed] | Carey/Maingay group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Tear | Print: UnknownUnknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend' 'When from the heart where sorrow sits/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Impromptu, In Reply | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem] | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'On A Cornelian Heart' OR Childe Harold's Pilgrima | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On A Cornelian Heart Which Was Broken' [transcript entire poem] | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'Written Beneath...' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'From the Portuguese' 'In moments to delight devoted/...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On Parting' 'The kiss, dear maid! Thy lip has left, /...' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage OR 'On Parting' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On being asked what was the "Origin of Love"' 'The "Origin of Love!" - Ah Why That Cruel question ask of Me.' | Molineux group, including Mrs Molineux | George Gordon, Lord Byron | On Being Asked What Was The "Origin of Love" | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sonnet on Chillon "Eternal spirit of the Chainless Mind!, ..."' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sonnet on Chillon | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Why should my anxious heart repine, ... Byron-1807' [three stanzas first published in Moore's 'Life', 1830] | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | L'Amitie Est L'Amour Sans Ailes | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'It is the voice of the years that are gone! They roll before me with all their deeds. Ossian! Newstead! Fast falling... | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Elegy on Newstead Abbey | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'If that high World If that high World which has beyond...' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'If That High World' OR Hebrew Melodies | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'On leaving Newstead Abbey ... >From Newstead Sept 9th 1830' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Elegy on Newstead | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I would I were a careless child, ...' 'Early Poems' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Stanzas | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Oh! Snatched away in Beauty's bloom...' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Oh! Snatched Away In Beauty's Bloom | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Extract from Byron's Monody on the Death of Sheridan | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Monody on the Death of the Right Hon. R.B. Sheridan | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Voice of the Second Spirit' 'Mont Blanc is the Monarch of mountains, ...' 'Manfred' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Manfred: A Dramatic Poem | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sun of the Sleepless' 'Sun of the Sleepless! Melancholy Star!...' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sun of the Sleepless | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When coldness wraps this suffering clay ... Hebrew Melodies' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! ... And laid my hand upon thy mane - as I do here. 4th canto' | Bowly group | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold, Canto IV | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sometime about the twenty first year of my age I perceived the great advantage possessed by those who received a clas... | Robert White | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold: A Romaunt, Canto IV | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'for each there had been no poet later than Byron...' | Philip and Emily Gosse | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Then, when I was twelve we had a really good poetry book which contained extracts from "The Excursion", part of "Chil... | Edwin Muir | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Our syllabus was large, covering at least twelve set books: two plays of Shakespeare's, two volumes of Milton and two... | Norman Nicholson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems extracts] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not be angry with me for beginning another Letter to you. I have read the Corsair, mended my petticoat, & have no... | Jane Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Coming upon a copy of "Don Quixote" in a warder's house, he thought it was "the most wonderful book [he] had ever see... | Arthur Symons | George Gordon Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During Mr Montgomery's stay he read books from my library, and on his returning Byron's Doge of Venice.' | James Montgomery | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Doge of Venice | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Missing Sewell on her reading at home in the Isle of Wight, after leaving her Bath boarding school in 1830:
... | Elizabeth Sewell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | poetry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'What Books have you been perusing - and how did you like Sha[ke]spea[re]? - Since I saw you I have toil'd thro' many ... | Thomas Carlyle | George Gordon Lord Byron | [Poems] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb... | Mary Godwin and Percy Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [italics] 'S. remains at home. reads Livy - [scored out] p.532 2d vol. [end scored out] Maie reads very little of Gibb... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Mary Godwin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Mary Godwin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: a Romaunt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1816. The diary from May 1815-July 1816 is lost, so this list is our only record for ... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth: a poem; Parisina: a poem | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 3rd Canto of Childe Harold' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am melancholy with reading the 3rd Canto of Childe Harold. Do you not remember, Shelley when you first read it to m... | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sterne & the 2nd Canto of Childe Harold' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Giaour, The: a fragment of a Turkish tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Giaur[sic] & the Corsair' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Corsair, The: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Lara' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara: a tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Saturday Sept. 17th [...] Dine at 1/2 past six [...] Shelley reads aloud the Curse of Kehama.
They [i.e. P. B. Shel... | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Monday Jany. 3rd. [...] Read Don Juan. Read the Life of Plutarch.' | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan [Cantos I and II] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wednesday Jany -- 5th. [...] Read Mazeppa.' | Claire Clairmont | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Prisoner of Chillon &c. to Mrs G' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Prisoner of Chillon, The, and other poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. calls on Lord B - He [presumably Shelley] reads the 4th Canto of Childe Harold' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read 4th Canto' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Volume IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Transcribe Mazeppa' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Finish transcribing Mazeppa - Copy the ode' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Ode on Venice' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read "Women" of Mathuerin [for Maturin] - the Fudge Family - Beppo &c. S. begins the Republic of Plato' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Beppo: a Venetian story | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Sleep at Bologna - S. reads 4th Canto aloud to me - read Montaigne' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817:
'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Works including The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her father, Edward Moulton-Barrett, c. November 1817:
'I have been reading Lord Byrons Corsair... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Reviews of the Corsair | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to her uncle, Samuel Moulton-Barrett, November 1818:
'I have read "Douglas on the Modern Greeks."... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Fourth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads D.[on] Juan aloud in the evening' | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Don Juan' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Livy - work - Read Mazeppa - S. reads Sophocles - & St Mathew [sic] aloud to me - Translate S.[pinoza]' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 22 July 1837:
'I am sure I ought to be proud of my verses ["Victoria's ... | Elizabeth Barrett | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Age of Bronze | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Don Juan' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Mary Shelley's reading list for 1820, with texts also read by Percy Shelley marked with an x. Only texts not mentione... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Cain' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Cain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Vision of Judgement'. | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Vision of Judgment, The | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'S. reads L.[ord] B.[yron]'s - Heaven and Earth in the evening'. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Heaven and Earth | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'dine with Jane - Read Albe's tragedy to her' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Werner | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'read Sardanapalus' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sardanapalus, a Tragedy | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read the Two Foscari' | Mary Shelley | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Two Foscari, The | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Benjamin Robert Haydon to Elizabeth Barrett, 18 June 1843:
'My dear Child is varying but no cough -- What a dear sw... | Mary Mordwinoff Haydon | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The elements of botany on the Linnaean system was another of my attempted acquirements, but I am afraid my studies we... | Elizabeth Missing Sewell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Try, by way of change, Byron?s "Mazeppa", you will be astonished. It is grand and no mistake, and one sees through it... | Robert Louis Stevenson | George Gordon Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Byron has sent us a new poem the Age of Bronze: it is short, and pithy - but not at all poetical. Byron may still ea... | Thomas Carlyle | George Gordon Byron | The Age Of Bronze | Print: BookManuscript: LetterUnknown |
| 1900-1945 | Saturday 18 February 1922: 'According to the papers, the cost of living is now I dont know how much lower than last ye... | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lord Byron's Correspondence | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Tuesday 7 July 1931: 'I am reading Don Juan; & dispatch a biography every two days.' | Virginia Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am sorry to mention that [Lord Byron's] last poem upon "The Decadence of Bonaparte", is worthy neither his pen nor ... | Princess Caroline Princess of Wales | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your descriptions of your travels do indeed set my feet moving, and my heart longing to see all you have seen; and th... | Susan Ferrier | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Corsair, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As you like sometimes high treason, I send you a copy of the verses written by Lord Byron on the discovery of the bod... | Princess Caroline, Princess of Wales | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [possibly lines from 'The Corsair' =- 'Weep, Daughter of a Royal Line'] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'if you have no [italics] odd things [end italics] lying about you which I daresay you do not lack there are many piec... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [juvenile poems] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had such a pleasant morning perusing Lara to day that I cannot risist [sic] the impulse of writing to you and ... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Corsair, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Melodies" bear a few striking marks of the master's hand but there are some of them feeble and I think they must... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Hebrew Melodies | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Siege of Corinth, The' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After an absence of 9 months in Yarrow I returned here the night before last when for the first time I found a copy o... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Parisina' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am highly dilighted [sic] with your two last little poems. They breathe a vein of poetry which you never once touch... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Parisina' and 'The Siege of Corinth' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have had a great treat this morning in perusing L. Byron's 3d Canto - Considered as a continuation of Child-Harold ... | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto III) | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have got the fourth canto to day - It is a glorious morsel!' | James Hogg | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (canto IV) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have done all my [italics] composition [end italics] of Ld B -, & done Crabbe outright since you left & got up Dryd... | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Turkish Tales' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 13 July 1902:
'[italics]I[end italics] dribble on among Aristotle, golf & Byron. ... | Leonard Woolf | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'I went yesterday to Montreux and then changed and went in a funny funicular to a place called Gstaadt where we arrive... | Harold Nicolson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | unknown | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare thee well | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life, A | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Samuel Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life, A | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I send you some lines which he [Lord Byron] printed but did not publish, and which were handed about [italics] confid... | Samuel Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare thee well | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanl... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Fare thee well | Print: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society |
| 1800-1849 | 'His [Byron's] "Farewell" is miserable poetry, and the allusions to the intimacy of marriage are not only ungentlemanl... | Richard Lovell Edgeworth | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life, A | Print: Unknown, either in newspaper or version circulated in society |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Manfred | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Anne Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Darkness | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read Lord Byron and his horrid Incantation? Can you doubt but that it is intended as a curse on his wife? He... | Samuel Romilly | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [poems] | Print: Book, Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | '[Alfred Tennyson's] grandmother, the sister of the Reverend Samuel Turner, would assert: "Alfred's poetry all comes f... | Mary Turner | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Prisoner of Chillon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Lord Dufferin to Alfred Tennyson [1858]:
'For the first 20 years of my life I not only did not care for poetry, but... | Helen Selina Sheridan Blackwood | George Gordon Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'While Darvall was with us this evening, Harry was anxious to show off his reading & so essayed a Piece. He was howeve... | John Buckley Castieau | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Eve of Waterloo) | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Did not go out but read a little Byron & then played Bezique with Polly till it was bed time' | John Buckley Castieau | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I read a little Byron for my own amusement then a number of Aesop's Fables for the amusement of the youngsters. The e... | John Buckley Castieau | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Byron was a great genius. 'Don' Juan is a terrific work. But there is scarcely a page of it which does not show tha... | Arnold Bennett | Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 September 1816:
'I have read with great pleasure the poem you lent me [Childe... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to the Rev. George Croly, 28 November 1816:
'Though I have little time to read poetry,and notwit... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 15 September 1819:
'Thank you for the perusal of the letter; it is not very good... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Letter to the Editor of My Grandmother's Review' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 18 July 1819:
'I am agreeably disappointed by finding "Don Juan" very little off... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Don Juan: cantos I-II | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | I have a wonderful miniature edition of Byron’s 'Don Juan', illustrated, for you, with a staggering Victorian prefa... | Arnold Bennett | Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I staid in and read Byron' | John Ruskin | George Gordon, Lord Byron | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'She [Anne Isabella Milbanke] read enormously [...] A list of her books makes the unregenerate blood run cold, though ... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'To Caroline Lamb, Queen of the Drawing-Rooms, a very early copy of Childe Harold was lent by Samuel Rogers [...] Inst... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On March 15 [1812] [...] [Anne Isabella Milbanke] dined at Lady Melbourne's [...] [William Lamb] may have been genuin... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (cantos I and II) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Annabella had [...] written to her aunt [Lady Melbourne; during autumn 1813], after having read the enlarged edition... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Anne Isabella Milbanke to Lord Byron (1814):
'Your ode to Buonaparte was read in the company which I have just left... | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | ode to Napoleon Bonaparte | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'At present [August 1814] she [Anne Isabella Milbanke] was reading Sismondi's Italian Republics. And she had read Lara.' | Anne Isabella Milbanke | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[John] Murray [Byron's publisher] sent an advance-copy of the new Harold. She [Lady Byron] read the imprecation, supp... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto III) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in July [1819] appeared the first part of Don Juan. "The impression was not so disagreeable as I expected, wrot... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Moore had owned that the Memoirs [of Byron] were of "such a low pot-house description" that [John Murray] could not h... | Thomas Moore | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla... | Lord John Russell | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla... | Lord Holland | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There were conflicting voices among those who had read the MS. [of Byron's Memoirs]. Lord John Russell and Lord Holla... | Lord Rancliffe | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | 'Fare thee well' (lyric verses) | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Early in 1831 there is the following entry in a diary [of Lady Byron's]: "Read to Ada the beautiful lines on Greece i... | Anne Isabella Lady Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | 'the Satire' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet, Countess Granville, to her sister Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 22 July 1819:
'I think parts of "Don Juan" more ... | Harriet Countess Granville | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822:
'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ... | Granville Leveson Gower | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cain | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Harriet Countess Granville to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth, 1 January 1822:
'I think "Cain" most wicked, but ... | Harriet Countess Granville | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sardanapalus | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“On a Cornelian Heart that was broken" - Lord ... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'On a Cornelian Heart which was broken' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To my Daughter" - Lord Byron'. | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'To My Daughter' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Sunday, 20 November 1825 (first entry):
'I have all my life regretted that I did not keep a regular [journal] [...]... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | memoranda | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace Book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '“Bright be the place of thy Soul” Lord Byron... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Bright be the place of thy soul' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"If that high World" - Byron', beginning 'If tha... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'If that high world' | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of '"To Mary" - Byron', beginning 'RACK'D by the fla... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | To Mary | Unknown |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | From the Commonplace book of Mrs Austen of Ensbury: Transcription of four lines lines from the "Bride of Abydos" [Byr... | Catherine Austen | George Gordon, Lord Byron | The Bridge of Abydos | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 2 July 1812, with enclosed letter of appreciation to Lord Byron:
'I trouble you with a... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813):
'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron (November 1813):
'I am so very anxious to procure the best criticism upon the "Bride [of ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Giaour | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | Thomas Moore | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | ?Richard Heber | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | Isaac Disraeli | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | John Wilson Croker | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 3 February 1814, on first reception of The Corsair:
'Never, in my recollection, has any ... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | Sir J. Malcolm | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron, 6 August 1814, on first reception of Lara:
'Mr. Frere likes the poem greatly, and partic... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, 6 January 1814:
'I have read Lord Byron's "Bride of Abydos" with great delight, and on... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Bride of Abydos | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | William Blackwood to John Murray, 8 November 1814:
'Since I was a little better [following illness] I have been aga... | William Blackwood | George Gordon Lord Byron | Lara | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | From recollections of John Murray junior:
'Sometimes, though not often, Lord Byron read passages from his poems to ... | George Gordon Lord Byron | George Gordon Lord Byron | poems | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Lord Byron (December 1815):
'I tore open the packet you sent me, and have found in it a Pearl. It is... | John Murray | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth / Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown, In hand of Anne Isabella, Lady Byron |
| 1800-1849 | Isaac D'Israeli to John Murray (December 1815):
'I find myself, this morning, so strangely affected by the perusal ... | Isaac D'Israeli | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816):
'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816):
'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron (c. January 1816):
'I enclose Ward's note after reading the "Siege of Corinth." I lent him "Pa... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 4 January 1816:
'Nothing can be more interestingly framed and more interestingly told than th... | John Murray | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Dr John Polidori, Byron's secretary, to John Murray, 10 July 1816:
'Since it has given you hopes of entering well i... | John Polidori | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Prisoner of Chillon | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816, on William Gifford's response to Childe Harold's
Pilgrimage, Canto IV:
'... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold IV | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra... | Samuel Rogers | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra... | John Hookham Frere | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'The "Sketch from Private Life" was one of the most bitter and satirical things Byron had ever written [...] Mr. Murra... | Stratford Canning | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sketch from Private Life | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816:
'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo... | Sir James Mackintosh | George Gordon Lord Byron | Monody [on Sheridan] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816:
'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Monody [on Sheridan] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 12 September 1816:
'Respecting the "Monody," I extract from a letter which I received this mo... | John Hookham Frere | George Gordon Lord Byron | Monody [on Sheridan] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | poems [apparently including Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 22 January 1817:
'I had a letter from Mr. Ward, to whom, at Paris, I sent the poems, and he i... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray (March 1817):
'A thousand thanks, my dear sir, for the loan of the Journal, which I hav... | Maria Graham | George Gordon Lord Byron | 'Swiss Journal [letter]' | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, from Venice, 7 December 1817:
'Your new acquisition is a very fine finish to the ... | John Cam Hobhouse | George Gordon Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | John Murray to Byron, 16 June 1818:
'Mr. Frere is at length satisfied that you are the author of "Beppo." He had no... | John Hookham Frere | George Gordon Lord Byron | Beppo | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady Caroline Lamb informed [John] Murray [Byron's publisher]: "You cannot think how clever I think 'Don Juan' is, in... | Lady Caroline Lamb | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan, Cantos I and II | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | John Cam Hobhouse to John Murray, 22 October 1821, prior to publications of Byron's plays Cain, The Two Foscari, and S... | John Cam Hobhouse | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Corsair | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr. Hobhouse wrote that [Sardanapalus] interested him very deeply, though it might be thought fantastical and unnatur... | John Cam Hobhouse | George Gordon Lord Byron | Sardanapalus | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Walter Scott to John Murray, regarding Byron's Cain:
'I do not know that his Muse has ever taken so lofty a flight ... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cain, a Mystery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Sharon Turner (lawyer) to John Murray, 31 January 1822:
'Mr. Shadwell, whom I have just seen, has told me that he h... | | George Gordon Lord Byron | Cain, a Mystery | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray
respecting the purchase of th... | Lady Holland | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray
respecting the purchase of th... | Lord John Russell | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray
respecting the purchase of th... | William Gifford | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'During the period that Mr. Moore had been in negotiation with the Longmans and Murray
respecting the purchase of th... | Mr Luttrell | George Gordon Lord Byron | Memoirs | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to
send the early sheets to... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | The Siege of Corinth | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'When Murray was about to publish Byron's "Siege of Corinth" and "Parisina," he promised to
send the early sheets to... | Walter Scott | George Gordon Lord Byron | Parisina | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | Maria Graham to John Murray, 2 November 1817:
'Pray what is the 4th Canto of "Childe Harold" doing? and where is Lo... | Maria Graham | George Gordon Lord Byron | works | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Caroline Norton to John Murray, 4 November 1837:
'I have received "Don Juan" and the October Quarterly [Review]. ..... | Caroline Norton | George Gordon Lord Byron | Don Juan | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Celia Burrow | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Mazeppa | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Alfred Rawlings | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Reginald Robson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | 'Isles of Greece, The' | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Francis Pollard | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Giaour, The | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'H.R. Smith then gave some account of Lord Byron's Life. Mrs Burrough [sic] read part of Mazzeppa [sic]. C.E Stansfiel... | Reginald Robson | George Gordon, Lord Byron | Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Print: Book |