Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Leigh Hunt

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Reading Tales from Blackwood, and "The Court Servant" (Leigh Hunt)Albert Battiscombe Leigh HuntThe Court ServantPrint: Book
1800-1849Byron to John Murray, 21 April 1813: 'I see the Examiner threatens some observations upon you next week ... 'George Gordon, Lord Byron Leigh HuntExaminer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 9 February 1814: 'Your poem I read long ago in "the Reflector" & it is not much to say it is the ...George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh HuntThe Feast of the PoetsPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, 22 October 1815: 'My dear Hunt -- You have excelled yourself - if not all your Contemporaries in ...George Gordon Lord Byron Leigh HuntThe Story of Rimini (Canto 3)Manuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Byron to Leigh Hunt, [?March-April 1816], on receptions of his poem The Story of Rimini: 'my sister and cousin ... wer...Augusta Leigh Leigh HuntThe Story of RiminiUnknown
1850-1899'Lancashire journalist Allen Clarke (b.1863), the son of a Bolton textile worker, avidly read his father's paperback e...Allen Clarke Leigh Hunt[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'she was reading Leigh Hunt's "Rimini", and copied a passage of twenty lines on the character of Giovanni - evidently ...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 1 January 1840: 'Read Examiner [...] but could not write at all. Made a cap, therefore.'Harriet Martineau Leigh Hunt (ed)The ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I see no paper but an old Examiner - strong meat - an Olla Podrida, high-flavoured but coarse and na[u]seous to a sen...Thomas Carlyle Leigh HuntThe ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Mary Shelley's Reading List for 1815. Only those titles not mentioned in journal entries are given separate database ...Mary Godwin James Leigh Hunt (ed.)The ReflectorPrint: Serial / periodical
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 James Leigh HuntStory of RiminiPrint: 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 James Leigh HuntStory of RiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849'Read Hunt's journal, which is extremely interesting'Mary Shelley Leigh HuntExaminer, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'[Tuesday] Dec. 12th. [...] Read Indicators by Hunt'.Claire Clairmont Leigh HuntIndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Wednesday Dec. 13th. [...] Read Indicators'.Claire Clairmont Leigh HuntIndicatorPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Read Legend of Montrose - Indicators'Mary Shelley Leigh Hunt (ed.)Indicator, ThePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 March 1840: 'I cant agree about the Legend, I read the whole of it - &...Elizabeth Barrett Leigh HuntA Legend of FlorencePrint: Book
1800-1849'Byron's Magazine or rather Hunt's 'The Liberal' is arrived in town; but they will not sell it - it is so full of Athe...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'At present the honest people of "the letters" are much shocked at the appearance of Byron's and Hunt's Magazine "The ...Thomas Carlyle Leigh Hunt (EDITOR)The LiberalPrint: Book, Serial / periodical, The LiberalManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 25 October 1841: 'I never read Leigh Hunt's book [...] because (now come...Mary Russell Mitford Leigh HuntLord Byron and Some of His ContemporariesPrint: Book
1800-1849'I assure you, Dear Friend, that I did not read even one line of Signor Hunt's book until it was already published - i...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntLord Byron and Some of his ContemporariesPrint: Book
1800-1849'Thank you for your beautiful play - so full of poetry & philosophy and all the loveliest things of this (when you wri...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntLegend of Florence, APrint: Book
1800-1849'I have read the rifacciamento with great pleasure - generally it is painful to see an old favourite changed - but you...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntPoetical Works of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1800-1849'You must be tired of my ugly handwriting - yet your book is so suggestive that one wants to talk about it - the more ...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntImagination and Fancy; or, Selections from the English PoetsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 November 1842: 'Mr Leigh Hunt & Mr Horne have been reviewing Tennyson...Elizabeth Barrett Leigh Huntreview article on Tennyson and/or BrowningPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Your book is delightful - You move one to the heart for Tasso - & I think make out a better case than he deserves for...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntStories from the Italian Poets: with lives of the writersPrint: Book
1800-1849'I ought to have written long ago to thank you, both for Percy & myself for your welcome Volume. It tries hard to be a...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntWit and HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'In looking over my note I find that I have not half said all I think of the admirable manner you treat the subject of...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntWit and HumourPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your kind present was most welcome [Mary then writes at length about her bad health] I have read a great deal of your...Mary Shelley Leigh HuntMen, Women, and books: a selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical MemoirsPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Richard Hengist Horne, 3 December 1844: 'I am grateful enough to [Leigh Hunt] [...] having, .....Elizabeth Barrett Leigh HuntImagination and FancyPrint: Book
1900-1945[Following transcription of two substantial paragraphs, in which Leigh Hunt describes Coleridge] '[this] is all I can ...Virginia Woolf Leigh HuntThe Autobiography of Leigh HuntPrint: Book
1800-1849'If it had not been for Dugald Gilchrist who reads any thing (or nothing) and wears spectacles besides, I should undou...Jane Baillie Welsh Leigh HuntThe Wishing CapPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'Savile Morton wrote to his mother that he had "come across Alfred Tennyson." "We looked out some Latin translations o...Savile Morton and Alfred TennysonLeigh HuntpoemsPrint: Unknown
1800-1849Lady Harriet Cavendish to her sister, Lady Georgiana Morpeth (December 1806): 'We had the Examiner yesterday. Mr. H...Devonshire familyLeigh Hunt et alThe ExaminerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849'In these days [1815-16] she [Lady Byron] was reading Leigh Hunt's Rimini, and copied a passage of twenty lines on the...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m...John Wilson Croker Leigh HuntThe TatlerPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849John Wilson Croker to John Murray, 21 January 1831: 'I return you the "Tatler" that you lent me. I think Mr. Hunt m...John Wilson Croker Leigh HuntRiminiPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 25 December 1847: 'Permit me to t...Charlotte Bronte Leigh HuntA Jar of Honey from Mount HyblaPrint: Book

 

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