| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | "I have just been reading, for the fourth time, I believe, The Simple Story, which I intended this time to read as a c... | Maria Edgeworth | Elizabeth Inchbald | A Simple Story | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "This minute I hear a carman is going to Navan, and I hasten to send you the Cottagers of Glenburnie, which I hope you... | Maria Edgeworth | Elizabeth Hamilton | The Cottages of Glenburnie | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "... but I do send by a carman two volumes of Alfieri's Life and Kirwan's Essay on Happiness, and the ... edition of P... | Maria Edgeworth | Vittorio Alfieri | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "I have read Corinne with my father, and I like it better than he does. In one word, I am dazzled by the genius, provo... | Maria Edgeworth | Germaine De Stael | Corinne | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | then pitied me [my father] for the ten-mile stage I had to go alone, but I did not pity myself, for I had Sir William ... | Maria Edgeworth | Sir William Jones | Asiatic Miscellany. pieces and extracts from various publications consisting of translations, fugitive pieces | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | "I have been laughed at unmercifully by some of the phlegmatic personages around the library table for my impatience t... | Maria Edgeworth | John Sargent | The Mine; to which are added two historic odes (The vision of Stonehenge and Mary Queen of Scots) | 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 | ?My father will allow me to manufacture an essay on the logograph, he furnishing the soiled materials and I spinning t... | Maria Edgeworth | John Wilkins | Real Character or an Essay towards universal philosophical language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I will tell you what is going on, that you may see whether you like your daily bill of fare. ? There is a balloon han... | Maria Edgeworth | William Nicholson | The First Principles of Chemistry | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have been reading a power of good books; Montesquieu Sur la grandeur and d?cadence des Romains, which I recommend t... | Maria Edgeworth | Charles-Louis Montesquieu | Causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur decadence | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?We saw at Brussels two of the best Paris actors, and Madame Talma. The play was Racine?s Andromache (initiated in Eng... | Maria Edgeworth | Jean Racine | Andromache | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I have just excited his [her father?s] envy even to clasping his hands in distraction, by telling him of a man I met ... | Maria Edgeworth | James Granger | A Biographical history of England from Egbert the Great to the Revolution | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?I have some idea of writing in the intervals of my severer studies for professional education, a comedy for my father... | Maria Edgeworth | Charles Robert Dallas | History of the Maroons, from their origin to the establishment of their chief tribe at Sierra Leone... | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | ?Now I do not know what you imagined in reading Sully?s Memoirs, but I always imagined the Arsenal was one large build... | Maria Edgeworth | Maxmillian de Bethune Sully | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?Have you seen Minor Morals by Mrs Smith ? There is in it a beautiful botanical poem called ?Calendar of Flora?.? | Maria Edgeworth | Charlotte Smith | Minor Morals: interspersed with sketches of National history and historical anecdotes and original stories | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?We saw today the residence of the Prince de Cond? - and of a long line of princes famous for virtue and talents ? the... | Maria Edgeworth | Stephanie Felicite de Genlis (Comtesse) | Mademoiselle de Clermont | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?To comfort ourselves we had a most entertaining Voyage dans les Pays Bas, par M Breton, to read and the charming stor... | Maria Edgeworth | Breton | Voyage dans les Pays Bas | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | ?One of her acts of beneficence [Madame Delessert] is recorded in Berquin?s Ami des Enfans but even her own children c... | Maria Edgeworth | Berquin | Ami des Enfants: select stories for the instruction and entertainment of children | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'Sneyd and Charlotte have begun Sir Charles Grandison: I almost envy them the pleasure of reading Clementina?s story f... | Maria Edgeworth | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'You do not mention Madame Roland, therefore I am not sure whether you have read her; if you have only read her in the... | Maria Edgeworth | Marie-Jeanne Philipon Roland de la Platiere | Memoirs | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The wife of an Indian yogi (if a yogi be permitted to have a wife) might be a very affectionate woman, but her sympat... | Maria Edgeworth | Kalidasa | Sakuntala: or the lost ring - and Indian drama | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [Half a page in praise of Evenings, beginning:] 'No one can be so injudicious, or so unjust, as to class the excellent... | Maria Edgeworth | John Aikin | Evenings at Home | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The first books which are now usually put into the hands of a child are Mrs. Barbauld's "Lessons"; they are by far th... | Maria Edgeworth | Anna Letitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) | Early Lessons for Children | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Yesterday morning I received the enclosed note from that most conceited and not over-well-bred Mons. de Lamartine. I... | Maria Edgeworth | Alphonse-Marie-Louis Prat de Lamartine | Histoire des Girondins | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | [from SHR's intro] 'It was probably Day's "Sandford and Merton" which induced her [Maria Edgeworth] to apply her natur... | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Day | Sandford and Merton | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Will you remember us kindly to Mr Dumont, and tell him that I have received his letter; and, that since I wrote to hi... | Maria Edgeworth | Thomas Thomson | Annals of Philosophy | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have not been able to discover the author of the article in the Quarterly that you mention. We all admired it very ... | Maria Edgeworth | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'We have read the speech which you were so good as to send me, which I most truly consider as the effusion of honest f... | Maria Edgeworth | Samuel Romilly | [speech on the Slave Trade] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am afraid that we do not admire "Waverley" as much as it deserves. The praise you give it would almost induce me to... | Maria Edgeworth | Walter Scott | Waverley; or, Tis Sixty Years Since | Print: Book |