√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Her Royal Highness once read through the whole of 'Candide' to one of her ladies, who told me her opinion of it, whic... | Charlotte Bury | Voltaire | Candide | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I asked leave to read to Her Royal Highness, and I began 'Les Malheurs de l'Inconstance'.' | Charlotte Bury | C.J. Dorat | Les Malheurs de l'Inconstance | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was shown today some verses by an accomplished man, which made me wish to be a free agent, and to visit the scenes ... | Charlotte Bury | Walter Arthur Keppel Craven | | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I received Walter Scott's Rokeby. I gazed at it with a transport of impatience, and began reading it in bed. I am alr... | Charlotte Bury | Walter Scott | Rokeby | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read Madame de Stael sur les Passions. What a wonderful mind is hers! what an insight she has into the recesses of hu... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein | Treatise on the Influence of the Passions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Madame de Stael's "Essai sur les fictions" delights me particularly: for every word in it is a beautiful echo of my o... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Louise Germaine Stael-Holstein | Essai sur les fictions | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read several chapters of Miss Berry's work, a Comparative View of the English and French Nations, since the time of... | Charlotte Bury | Mary Berry | [historical work] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read a novel all the evening, but yet his very presence is horridly degrading' | Charlotte Bury | | [a novel] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read in Stafford's library the wonderful news of the allies entering into Paris'. | Charlotte Bury | | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | '[Lord D-] pulled out of his pocket some very abominable verses, which he called "capital" and desired me to read. He ... | Charlotte Bury | | verses | Manuscript: MS verses |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have myself read his [Kant's] works, and I think nothing can be more lucid than his style, or more easy to be under... | Charlotte Bury | Immanuel Kant | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the... | Charlotte Bury | Galileo Galilei | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Read some Italian letters of Gallileo's [sic] and Raphael's, more for the names of the writers than the matter of the... | Charlotte Bury | Raphael | [letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Took notes from Miss Plumtre. Finished the first volume' | Charlotte Bury | Miss Plumtre or Plumptre | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[during an encounter with a Madame de Villegard who showed her 'curious old books on the black art'] I read some of t... | Charlotte Bury | | 'curious books on the black arts' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'of all the generations who have praised Madame de Sevigne, and commended her writings, I am certain no one has ever e... | Charlotte Bury | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am often ashamed when I read over what I have written, to see how I allow my mind to wander, and my pen to note dow... | Charlotte Bury | Charlotte Bury | Diary | Manuscript: MS journal |
| 1800-1849 | 'I went to church: heard a very fine sermon. The text was taken from the Psalms. Missed the verse, and could not find ... | Charlotte Bury | | Psalms | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'. | Charlotte Bury | Michel de Montaigne | Essais | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Montaigne and Metastasio'. | Charlotte Bury | Metastasio [pseud.] | | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I employed myself in the evening, reading Lord John Russell's life of his ancestor Lord William Russell. The preface ... | Charlotte Bury | Lord John Russell | Life of William Lord Russell, with Some Account of the Times | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read Lady Morgan's Florence Macarthy. There is originality and genius in all she writes'. | Charlotte Bury | Sydney, Lady Morgan | Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a most amiable Archbishop, who is very anxious for my conversion to the "[italics] true [end italics] faith"... | Charlotte Bury | | [Catholic books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am reading Goethe's life. With what enthusiasm he made his journey into Italy. It is pleasant to read or hear of an... | Charlotte Bury | | [life of Goethe] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'On my return home, I found several letters from England; amongst them, one from Miss [-], in which she speaks of W[-]... | Charlotte Bury | John Wilson | Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been reading Wraxall's Memoirs of the House of Valois. it is a very diverting book. The discovery that I make ... | Charlotte Bury | Nathaniel William Wraxall | Memoirs of the kings of France, of the race of Valois | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'After my visit to Mrs [-], I returned home, and read Miss Seward's Letters. I think them very entertaining, though th... | Charlotte Bury | Anna Seward | Letters | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Grant | Essays on the superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: to which are added, translations from the Gaelic | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | Francis Jeffrey | [ review of 'Essays on the superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland: to which are added, translations from the Gaelic...' by Anne Grant] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | Francis Jeffrey | [ review of new edition of Ford's plays] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | John Ford | Broken Heart, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Lady [-] lent me Mrs Grant's "Superstitions of the Highlands", and I like what I have read of it; but, above all thin... | Charlotte Bury | John Ford | Lover's Melancholy, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I happened by chance when in this mood [melancholy], to open "The Lady of the Lake", and I thought, as I read it, so ... | Charlotte Bury | Walter Scott | Lady of the Lake, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Charlotte Bury went to see Humphry Davy, hoping to enlist his support in a subscription for James Hogg] 'and the visi... | Charlotte Bury | Humphry Davy | 'To the Glow-Worm' | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I was glad to have the enjoyment of reading Schlegel's History of Literature. It is a fine work, built on a sure foun... | Charlotte Bury | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Schlegel | [probably] Geschichte der alten und neuen Literatur | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Spent a quiet day at home. Read "The Story of a Life" by Sherer; a powerfully written book with vivid description and... | Charlotte Bury | Joseph Moyle Sherer | The Story of a Life. By the Author of Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and Italy, Recollections of the Peninsula, &c | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation... | Charlotte Bury | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | [possibly] Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'At home all day. Read Goethe's Life, and Tweddell's remains. The latter is very invigorating, showing great animation... | Charlotte Bury | John Tweddell | Remains of the late John Tweddell, fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge: Being a selection of his letters... With a republication of his Prolusiones Juveniles, etc | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '[Lady Caroline Lamb's] novel of Glenarvon showed much genius, but of an erratic kind; and false statements are so min... | Charlotte Bury | Caroline Lamb | Glenarvon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Amongst various verses, which she insisted on my accepting, she gave me the following lines, which she said she had w... | Charlotte Bury | Caroline Lamb | 'Winter Amusements' | Manuscript: Sheet |
| 1800-1849 | 'I happened to open Madame de Stael's "Allemagne", and passed the whole night in reading that delightful work over aga... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein | De l'Allemagne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I feel, dear [-], gratified by the partiality which you express for my writings. You would, more than many others, be... | Charlotte Bury | Anne Grant | Letters from the Mountains | Print: Book |