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Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] : The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.
Home near 9. Read 'The Prude' comfortably by a fire.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Anon OR 'M. A.' [Madame A] : The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.
Read 'The Prude'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Anon OR 'Ma. A' [Madame A] : The Prude. A Novel... By a Young Lady.
Tent till dark. Read the 3rd part of 'The Prude', and the 'The Beautifull Pyrate'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Savile Print: Book
Anon : The Arabian Nights
'Next to Robinson Crusoe, Rider liked the Arabian Nights, The Three Musketeers and the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and Macaulay. His two favourite novels were Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities and The Coming Race, a fantasy novel by Bulwer Lytton (the uncle of Sir Henry Bulwer, a Norfolk neighbour and friend of Squire Haggard who was to play a decisive part in Rider's life).'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Rider Haggard Print: Book
anon : Little Katey and Jolly Jim
'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even though Grandfather, himself, loved to read. He took a daily newspaper from Charlottetown and Grandmother had her Godey's Lady's Book magazine full of stories, poems and fashion drawings. There was the big family Bible. There was "The Pilgrim's Progress" - in those days, in every Christian household where there were books, there was a copy of Bunyan's inspirational allegory. There were other Christian books and missionary tracts, two volumes of the History of the World, a few novels for adults, and one story for children entitled "Little Katey [sic] and Jolly Jim". Grandfather read the Bible aloud every night after supper, seated at the big table in the sitting room, and, afterwards, Maud was allowed to sit at the kitchen table with the light from the oil lamp shining on the book and read again the stories that gripped her... In time, she did read every book on Grandfather's shelves, but not during the summer she was six and a half, and she was well into her teens before she had any wish to read most of the novels or "The Pilgrim's Progress". But she spent many a blissful evening poring over the fashion drawings in the Godey's Lady's Book... The one book she read over and over was "Little Katey and Jolly Jim", because it was about children and not too full of moral lessons. She thought it was "simply scrumptious".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery Print: Book
anon : Nibelungen Lied
'Read the "Leader" and the "Nibelungen Lied"'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud] Print: BookManuscript: Unknown
anon. : [review of Eliot's book, in "The Times"]
'G. returned from Vernon Hill, and I read to him, after the review of my book in the "Times", the delicious scenes at Tetterby's with the "Moloch of a baby" in "the Haunted Man".'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot (pseud) Print: Newspaper
anon : 'Attitudes -- A Sketch'
In letter to Mary Berry of 17 August 1791, Horace Walpole transcribes anonymously-authored, sixteen-line verse, sent to him by General Conway, on Sir W. Hamilton's mistress Emma Harte ('Attitudes -- A Sketch').
UnknownCentury: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole
anonymous : A Dialogue on Parliamentary Reform
[Marginalia]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge Print: Book
Anon : Fragments in the Manner of Sterne
'Mr E. brought "Fragments in the Manner of Sterne" 1797 from the library. The "Monthly Review" says it is the best imitation of Sterne that has ever appeared. I finished it that night & was very pleased with it; I think I will read "Tristram Shandy".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
Anon : Fragments in the Manner of Sterne
'Wrote out of "Fragments" the piece upon war.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
[Anon] : Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution
'Took Staunton's "Embassy to China" to the Library & brought "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution...". "about one-third of the anecdotes" says the editor ... "have appeared in the 'Monthly Magazine' but the rest are original".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
[Anon] : Biographical Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution
'Finished the "Anecdotes of the Founders of the French Revolution". I have found that considerably more of it has appeared in the "Monthly Magazine" than they acknowledge. The second volume is probably more original.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
Anon : Long Faces; Amusement for Starving Mechanics
'Procured a paper in form of an advertisement called "Long Faces" published Feb. 28th 1794 on the fast which was held that day. It is a very keen satire on fast days in general. I think it has been declared a libel.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Advertisement
Anonymous : Eighteen Sermons Intended to Establish
'Lookd into the two vols of Sermons from Lord R. the texts are well selected and the sermons are plainly and sensibly written they are in my mind much superior to Blairs popular sermons'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Clare Print: Book
Anonymous : Arabian Nights Entertainments
'I have been for some time amusing myself with the "Arabian Nights" Entertainments, to whose fascinating influence I am quite ductile...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
anon : Whim and Contradiction: A Tale
Arabella Moulton Barrett to her sister Elizabeth Barrett, c. August 1819: 'do you rememb'r simple susan and whim and contradiction I have just read them'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Arabella Moulton-Barrett Print: Book
anon : Two Old Men's Tales: The Deformed, and The Admiral's Daughter
Elizabeth Barrett to Theodosia Garrow, md-August 1839: 'I was too tired upon my return from the [italics]voyage[end italics] [water excursion] yesterday, to do more than feel very pleased & honored too, by Mr Landor's gift. Thank you for conveying it to me [...] The Admiral's daughter is the second of the "[italics]Two old men's tales[end italics]". I read it upon its publication several years ago, & was much struck with its passion & intensity'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
anon : mock epitaph for Virginia Woolf
Thursday 7 March 1940: 'A fortnight -- well on Saturday it will be a fortnight -- with influenza [...] before getting into bed that bitter [previous Saturday] afternoon I read my epitaph -- Mrs W. died so soon, in the N.S. & was pleased to support that dismissal very tolerably [...] And read all Havelock Ellis, a cautious cumulative, teased & tired book; too pressed down with that very common woman, Edith [Lees, Ellis's wife]: so I judged her, but she was life to him [...] He's honest & clear but thick [illegible] & too like the slow graceful Kangaroo with its cautious soft leaps. But thats much due to influenza.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical
Anon [Apprently the father of the dead child] : [memorial on grave]
'[…] I’ve been to church and am not depressed − a great step. I was at that beautiful church my P.P.P.[Petit Poeme en Prose] was about. It is a little cruciform place, with heavy cornices and string course to match, and a steep slate roof. The small kirkyard is full of old gravestones; one of a Frenchman from Dunquerque, I suppose he died prisoner in the military prison hard by. And one, the most pathetic memorial I ever saw: a poor school-slate, in a wooden frame, with the inscription cut into it evidently by the father’s own hand.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Manuscript: Inscription carved on school slate.
anon : 12-canto poem on battle of Waterloo
'At the end of the year [1855] an unknown Nottingham artizan [sic] came to call. My father asked him to dinner and at his request read "Maud." It appears that the poor man had sent his poems beforehand. They had been acknowledged, but had not been returned, and had been forgotten. He was informed that the poems, thus sent, were always looked at, although my father and mother had not time to pass judgement on them. A most pathetic incident of this kind, my father told me, happened to him at Twickenham, when a Waterloo soldier brought twelve large cantos on the battle of Waterloo. The veteran had actually taught himself in his old age to read and write that he might thus commemorate Wellington's great victory. The epic lay for some time under the sofa in my father's study, and was a source of much anxiety to him. How could he go through such a vast poem? One day he mustered up courage and took a portion out. It opened on the head of a canto: "The Angels encamped above the field of Waterloo." On that day, at least, he "read no more." He gave the author, when he called for his manuscript, this criticism: "Though great images loom here and there, your poem could not be published as a whole." The old man answered nothing, wrapt up each of the twelve cantos carefully, placed them in a strong oak case and carried them off. He was asked to come again but he never came.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Manuscript: Unknown
anon : 'The Commercial Policy of Pitt and Peel'
John Wilson Croker to Lord Stanley, 4 [?14] June 1847: 'I have had communicated to me the pages of a pamphlet, which is in the press, and about to be published in defence of the policy, and still more of the fairness of and consistency of Sir R. Peel's conduct [...] 'When you come to see the pamphlet you will find on p.45, &c, your personal accordance with Sir Robert's free trade measures, and particularly your Canada Corn Bill produced in his behalf. 'The pamphlet is well-written, and in rather a conciliatory tone, and certainly looks like like a move towards re-uniting the party under Sir R. Peel; but there is no argument for, and indeed hardly any palliation of, the particular steps of his proceeding in 1845-6. It [italics]assumes[end italics] that the Irish famine has proved, and that the state of England by and by will further prove, that all he did was [italics]right[end italics], as the writer thinks that he has shown that it was all [italics]fair[end italics].'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Wilson Croker
anon ('ancient writers') :
From Harriet Grote's diary (1868): 'Mr. Grote [husband] said he had, in the course of the last few months, taken down Gibbon's work and read occasionally therein; and, he added, he had been penetrated with admiration of the exactitude and fidelity of the references [...] Grote had tested Gibbon's trustworthiness, on several points, by reference to ancient writers, and invariably found his statements correct and candid. Dr. William Smith said that he too had compared the references in Gibbon with the works cited, and that he was affected by the same feeling of respect and admiration [comments further on George Grote's enthusiasm for Gibbon].'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote Print: Book
anon : The Histories of some of the Penitents in the Magadalen House
[Catherine Talbot to Elizabeth Carter, 27 November 1759:] 'The book you enquire after is "The History of some of the Penitents in the Magdalen House." I think that is the title of the very pretty book we have been reading. I know not who writ it, but it is at least a very good likeness of Mrs Fielding.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Catherine Talbot and family Print: Book
anon : Arden of Faversham
'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: T. C. Elliott
anon : Arden of Faversham
'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Sylvanus Reynolds
anon : Arden of Faversham
'A scene was then read from The Lamentable Tragedy of Arden of Faversham T. C. Elliot taking the part of Arden[.] S A Reynolds was Franklin & Geo Burrow Michael.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Burrow
Anon : [old Berkshire ballad on a lad who died from eating custard]
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of last read and approved
2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee
[...]
4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.
Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.
C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.
H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"
F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"
M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"
Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.
E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Brain
Anon : The lay of the hunted pig
Meeting held at 70 Northcourt Avenue 28/4/1933
C. E. Stansfield in the chair
1 Minutes of last read and approved
2 For the Next Meeting's subject "The Jew in Literature" was chosen with Geo Burrow H. R. & E. B. Smith as committee
[...]
4 The evening's subject of Berkshire in Literature was then opened up by Charles E. Stansfield reading from Tom Browns School days a description of the Vale of the White Horse[.] He carried us into a quietude of time & space where a great lover of the Vale tells of the great open downs & the vale to the north of them.
Dorothy Brain told us something of Old Berkshire Ballads surprising us with their number & variety & read an amusing Ballad about a lad who died of eating custard, & the Lay of the Hunted Pig.
C. E. Stansfield read an introduction to "Summer is a Cumen In"which was then played and sung on the Gramophone.
H. R. Smith read a description of "Reading a Hundred Years Ago" from "Some Worthies of Reading"
F. E. Pollard introduced Mary Russell Mitford to the Club giving a short account of her life and Work quoting with approval a description of her as "A prose Crabbe in the Sun"
M. S. W. Pollard read "The Gypsy" from "Our Village"
Geo Burrows gave us a short Reading from Mathew Arnolds "Scholar Gypsy" and a longer one from "Thyrsis"[.] During this the Stansfield "Mackie" put in a striking piece of synchronization.
E. B. Castle read an interesting account of the Bucklebury Bowl Turner from H. V. Mortons "In Search of England".
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