| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'Of his poem Waterloo she writes:
"These are my honest opinions, just as I should give them to any third person: and ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Field of Waterloo, The | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Like most of those capable of appreciating real literature, Lady Louisa enjoyed novels of almost any description; adm... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | [novels] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | William Shakespeare | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Ben Jonson | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Henry Mackenzie | Man of Feeling, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | 'She comments, with discrimination, on Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Rousseau and Cervantes, "Tom Jones", "Emma", "A Man... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | George Crabbe | [unknown] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '"Flimsy novel language disgusts" her; and she "perceives a difference between 'Sir Charles Grandison' and the common ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Samuel Richardson | Sir Charles Grandison | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you ever read "Emma", a novel of Miss Austen's? I have seen three or four [italics] Harriet Smiths [end italics] ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'You need not be at all afraid that I should think your journal an odd composition. I am so much charmed with it that ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Caroline Dawson | [journal] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1700-1799 | 'We hear of nothing but the Prince of Wales, but as we get no other account in our letters but what is to be seen in t... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1700-1799 | 'Some of his pictures are good, and as his family is very noble and greatly allied, one sees many faces one has read o... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | [history books] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end ita... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Marmion | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mr Scott must have thought me very ungrateful in returning no acknowledgements for being [italics] entrusted [end ita... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Lay of the Last Minstrel, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Waverley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Guy Mannering | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Tales of my Landlord | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In general the coterie here are disposed to think it not by the same author as "Waverley", etc., and to think it supe... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Antiquary, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'By the bye, I think I read your Mr Morritt's account of Hampton Court in Herefordshire, one of the oldest baronial se... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Mr Morritt | [account of Hampton Court, Herefordshire] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the fi... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Bride of Lammermoor, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I believe most people would say of the four-and-twenty volumes, what I have known parents of large families do of the... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | [Works] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do not suppose, however, that I am at present reading the ["Bride of Lammermoor" and "Legend of Montrose"] for the fi... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Legend of Montrose, A | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Thomas Gray | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | | Quarterly Review [articles on classics] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | Quarterly Review [article about Alexander von Humboldt] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray tell Lady Louisa that I have been reading the last "Quarterly Review" (No. XLII) more steadily than I could do a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Hookham Frere | Quarterly Review [burlesque poetry] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Plato and tact sounds like Plato and puppy, an incongruous mixture of ancient and modern, such as only suits the lang... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Sydney, Lady Morgan | Woman: or, Ida of Athens | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | [description of the Court of Haiti] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I am very glad you have enjoyed the court of Hayti, much the best part of the book in my opinion. I only barred your ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | [unknown - French? -text featuring travels in america] | Print: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'If the paper today speaks truth about the King's sending for the Duke of Sussex, he begins as he should do, for no on... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | [Waverley Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Anne Racliffe | [Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Your observation on the Waverley novels is perfectly just; instead of misleading one concerning the true history, or ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Lucy Aikin | Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'a thousand thanks for [your letter], and for Sir John Stanley's speech, which I like very much, though I own I think ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Stanley | [a speech] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'There is a part of Sir John's speech I think quite beautiful, that which describes the sensation of vacancy; and his ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Stanley | [a speech] | Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'This [talking about feuds between families] reminds me of "Ivanhoe". I take the introduction of Scripture phrases to ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jeremy Taylor | Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The former [apparently a letter from Louisa Clinton, praising LS -or someone else? - extravagantly] discomposed me, t... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de Sevigne | [Letters] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Louis 14 certainly never fell into the error Mrs Millamant cautioned her intended husband against in a clever wicked ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | William Congreve | Way of the World, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Mrs Scott (here) is as thorough-paced a lover of those books [The Waverley Novels] as either of us. I have been looki... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Galt | Ayrshire Legatees, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Have you read the "Martyr of Antioch"? I read it (aloud) at Ditton, and did not like it much - heavy and dragging, I ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Henry Hart Milman | Martyr of Antioch, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [unknown] | Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As for reading, I have much to say of the "Memoires de l'Europe sous Napoleon", but not time for it till quiet in my ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Emmanuel Las Cases | Memorial de Sainte Helene: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations o the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Pray, if you love laughing, read "the [italics] Entail [end italics] or the Lairds of Grippy". It is admirable for th... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | John Galt | Entail, The, or The Lairds Of Grippy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I ought to have thanked you for "Redgauntlet" a fortnight ago, but I stayed to read it, and then to read it again. It... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Redgauntlet | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I read her [Miss Murray] the legend of Steenie Steenson the other night, and we agreed it was in the author's very be... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Wandering Willie's Tale | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Another thing pleases me, the general approbation of the last "Quarterly Review", Mr Lockhart's first, I believe, and... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the b... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Mary Shelley | Last Man, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have lately had a long bad cold, such as reduces one to trash and slops, novels and barley water, and amongst the b... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Maria Edgeworth | [Novels] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Are not Maria and Anny a thousand times preferable to the Miss in "Inheritance", who describes the Lakes of Cumberland?' | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Susan Ferrier | Inheritance, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'draw her [Harriet, a girl LC is teaching] to such books as White's "Natural History of Selborne", but do not bother a... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Gilbert White | Natural History of Selborne, The | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'My mind was early formed (or half formed) by the old exploded "Spectator", and Addison's assertion that he had seen "... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Joseph Addison | Spectator, The | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Morning Post | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Courier, The | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Wellesley Long has thought fit to produce before Chancery his letters to his children, and like everything else they ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [Unknown newspaper - article on Wellesley Long Chancery Case] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Do tell me what more you have heard about the poor Fans. [Fanshawes]. Is it to such an extent as is rumoured? the new... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspapers] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'Did you see in the newspaper that W.S. has avowed himself the author of "Waverley" etc.? He said at a public meeting ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspaper] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I have been feasting upon the Demonology and Witchcraft; yet some stories freshly rung in my ears, and I am sure full... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Walter Scott | Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review [advertisements for forthcoming works by Scott] | Print: Advertisement, Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'In the bushel of advertisements tacked to the "Quarterly Review", I spy two from Cadell that I am very glad to see - ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | Quarterly Review [Review of Southey's "John Bunyan"] | Print: Serial / periodical |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | A.K. | [fragments, including something in French] | Manuscript: Unknown |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | George Anne Bellamy | Memoirs of George Anne Bellamy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Sophia Baddeley | Memoirs of Mrs Sophia Baddeley | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Marie-Jeanne Roland | Memoirs of Madame Roland | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Henry Fielding | History of Tom Jones, A Foundling | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Bentley's puffs in the newspaper (for Jane Scott's "Trevelyan") quite sicken me, all admirable and charming alike, wr... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspaper advertisements for "Trevelyan"] | Print: Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, he... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jane Scott | Trevelyan | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Jane Austen | Emma | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The newspapers having transferred their puffs from "Trevelyan" to something more recent I am tranquillized again, and... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | [n/a] | [newspaper advertisements for Jane Scott's Trevelyan and other books] | Print: Advertisement, Newspaper |
| 1800-1849 | 'I wish you would like my poor friend Miss Knight's "Guy de Lusignan" a little better: the style is very good, the des... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Ellis Cornelia Knight | Sir Guy de Lusignan. A tale of Italy | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'I always thought Chateaubriand had a great deal of the mountebank in him. I bought the play [which she also watched] ... | Louisa, Lady Stuart | Francois Rene de Chateaubriand | Moïse | Print: Book |