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Walter Scott : The Antiquary

'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our Heroine read it aloud of a Sunday Evening, just as Isabella Wardour in the Antiquary, is made to read the History of the Hartz Demon in the ruins of St Ruth - tho I beleive, on reflection, Lovell is the Reader.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen      Print: Book

Walter Scott : Review of George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III

Byron to John Murray, 3 March 1817: 'In acknowledging the arrival of the article from the Quarterly, which I received two days ago, I cannot express myself better than in the words of my sister Augusta, who (speaking of it) says, that it is written in a spirit "of the most feeling and kind nature."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Augusta Leigh      Print: Serial / periodical

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