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Hilaire Belloc : 'The Dons', 'The Poor of London'
'Yesterday my Elizabeth and I went to the most remarkable poets' Reading I have ever attended. It was held at Lord Byron's beautiful house in Piccadilly... I was moved by Mr de la Mare reading five poems of great beauty. Elizabeth was thrilled at seeing for the first time W.H. Davies, a strange tiny poet. He read "Love's Silent Hour" and three others. Hilary [Hilaire Belloc] read "The Poor of London" and "the Dons". He got a big reception'.
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilaire Belloc
Thomas Campbell : Hohenlinden
transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Campbell : The dirge of wallace
transcript of the poem headed 'battle of hohenlinden / campbell'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Campbell : Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale
'death scene in gertrude of wyoming/ campbell'; there is also a footnote that gives the context of the scene in the tale.
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Groom
Thomas Campbell : The Last Man
'The Last Man by T. Campbell esq' [transcribes text] 'All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom...' Signed 'Fanny'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Dugdale
John Bell : Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry
'W[ordsworth] asked [William] Mathews in Oct. 1795 to "make me a present of that vol: of Bells forgotten poetry which contains The Minstrel and Sir martyn" ... [he]included an extract from [William Julius Mickle's] Sir Martyn in the Album he compiled for Lady Mary Lowther in 1819 ... '
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Andrew Bell : Experiment in Education made at the Asylum of Madras, An
William Wordsworth to Francis Wrangham: 'Since I wrote to you I have read Dr Bell's Book upon Education ... it is a most interesting work and entitles him to the fervent gratitude of all good men: but I cannot say [?it has made] any material change in my views ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Wordsworth Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : Gertrude of Wyoming (extracts)
Dorothy Wordsworth to Thomas De Quincey, 1 August 1809: '... I took the pains when I was in Kendal of going to the Book Club to look at the Reviews ... have you seen the Edinburgh Review on Cam[p]bell's Poem [Gertrude of Wyoming]? I know not whther the Extracts brought forward in illustration of the encomiums or the encomiums themselves are more absurd ... '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Serial / periodical
Thomas Campbell : Exile of Erin, The
' ... the first three stanzas and two concluding stanzas of [Thoms] Campbell's poem [The Exile of Erin] were copied and pasted by S[ara] H[utchinson] into the Wordsworth Commonplace Book ... '
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sara Hutchinson
Thomas Campbell : Lines on Leaving a Scene in Bavaria
Byron to John Murray, 2 September 1814: ' ... [Thomas Campbell] has an unpublished (though printed) poem on a Scene in Germany (Bavaria I think) which I saw last year -- that is perfectly magnificent ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Unknown
Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: 'Looked over accounts. Read Campbell's Poets -- marked errors of Tom (the author) for correction. Dined ...'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 10 January 1821: '[after going out to hear music] Came home -- read. Corrected Tom Campbell's slips of the pen.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 11 January 1821: 'In reading, I have just chanced upon an expression of Tom Campbell's; speaking of Collins, he says that "no reader cares any more about the characteristic manners of his Eclogues than about the authenticity of the tale of Troy." 'Tis false ...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : Specimens of the British Poets (including prefatory Essay on English Poetry)
Byron's Ravenna Journal (4 January-27 February 1821), 12 January 1821: 'Read the Poets -- English that is to say -- out of Campbell's edition. There is a good deal of taffeta in some of Tom's prefatory phrases, but his work is good as a whole.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Gordon Lord Byron Print: Book
Edward Bellamy : Looking Backward: 2000-1887
'James Murray, a Glasgow woodcarver, represented the kind of reader Dent and Rhys were trying to reach. He credited Everyman magazine with "opening up an entirely new set of ideas to which I had previously been a stranger. I became familiar with the names and works of all the truly great authors and poets, and was now throughly convinced I had been misplaced in my life's work". His reading ranged from Rasselas to Looking Backward'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: James Murray Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope
Dorothy Wordsworth's Grasmere Journal, Monday 1 February, 1802: 'In the morning a Box of clothes with Books came from London. I sate by his [William Wordsworth's] bedside, and read in The Pleasures of Hope to him, which came in the box.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Dorothy Wordsworth Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope
'Tea between 9 and 10. I read aloud a little of 'The Pleasures of Hope'. Mrs Barlow [friend and lover] sat hemming one end of tablecloth and we were very cosy and comfortable.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Lister Print: Book
Archibald Campbell : A Voyage Round the World, from 1806-1812
'Finished Derham's "Physico Theology" and read Campbell's narrative of a Voyage round the world'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book
Hilaire Belloc : [unknown]
'as an office boy, Pritchett tried to read widely and dreamt of an escape to Bohemia. But his knowledge of the Latin Quarter was gleaned not from Flaubert, only from third-raters like George du Maurier, W.J. Locke, and Hilaire Belloc'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Victor Sawdon Pritchett Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope
'It was about this time that I first read that very beautiful poem, "The Pleasures of Hope". I also repersued a large portion of Cowper's Poems; and, in spite of the unfavourable accounts of it given by critics, resolved upon reading Thomson's "Liberty". This resolution I carried into effect, to my very considerable amusement, if not instruction. As to its poetical merits, I did not venture to sit in judgement upon them.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Book
John Campbell : The Universal History
?With this proposal I of course readily closed and accordingly the next day my father gave me the 1st vol of the "Universal History" (beginning with the life of Mohamed) and the 1st of Rapin?s "History of England", to begin with, an each of which in turn, I bestowed an hour in reading on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Friday mornings, allotting the other two mornings to a more amusing kind of reading such as Dryden?s "Virgil", "Telamachus", "Charles 12th". etc. I also began a translation of "Diable Boiteaux" & a prose one of Virgil?s "Eneid".?
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: John Marsh Print: Book
Neil Bell : Handsome Langleys, The
[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in Love; Men and Women; The Headmistress; The People's Government; The Art of Writing; Speech and Sound; Background to the Life of Christ; The House of Prayer; Eleanor in the Fifth; Adventures of Jig and Co; Rendezvous with Fear; Antony and Cleopatra; Hamlet; The Poetry of James Elroy Flecker; Escape; Hangman's Holiday; The Body Behind the Bar; Strong Poison; The Critic; Magic Lantern; Listening Valley; Emma; Dragon Seed; Crowthers of Bankdam; The Rat Trap; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; The Spanish House; O the Brave Music; The Light that Failed; Ghosts; The Antiquary; The Knightes Tale; Luria; The Best of Hazlitt; Pericles; The Rivals; Hamlet [again]; Antony and Cleopatra [again]; Knightes Tale [again]; Julius Caesar; Merchant of Venice; The Critic; The Rivals; Cymbeline; Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of a Better World; The Nine Tailors; The Conquered; The Professor; Peter Abelard; Then They Pulled Down the Blind; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club; Portrait of a Man with Red Hair; Winnie-the-Pooh; The House at Pooh Corner; Mrs Parkinson; Adele and Co; Frossia; Cluny Brown; Four Gardens; The World is Square; Being Met Together; Best Sporting Stories; Selected stories by Q; And Five were Foolish; Campaspe; Endimion [by Lyly]; Midas; Dr Faustus [again]; Twelfth Night; Mrs Warrent's Proffession [sic]; The Spanish Tragedy; The Jew of Malta; Galathea; Tambourlaine; Sun is my Undoing; By Greta Bridge; Utopia; England, their England; The Art of Poetry; Old Wives Tale; The Reader is Warned; Long, Long Ago; Friar Bacon & Friar Bungay; James IV of Scotland; The Handsome Langleys; The Dog Beneath the Skin; Death Comes for the Archbishop; The Island of Youth; I'll Say She Does; The Forsyte Saga; In Youth is Pleasure; On Forsyte Change; Genesis to Nehemiah.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Hilary Spalding Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : Letters from Algiers
'He also again freely supplied me with the loan of books. At this time he lent me several volumes of the "New Monthly Magazine", among the very many interesting articles in which I was especially pleased with the "Letters from Algiers", written by Mr. Thomas Campbell, the eminent poet'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Carter Print: Serial / periodical
Thomas Campbell : [poetry]
'there was always poetry. Campbell, just then at the top of his short-lived vogue; Ossian, the unreadable of to-day; Milton - and with the New Year of 1812 a Captain Boothby (met during the London season) as a visitor with whom to read the last, but not the other two. For he did not admire Campbell or Ossian; and indeed seems to have been a person of delicate discriminations, though not advanced in thought. They were reading "Paradise Lost"...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : First discourse upon Poetry
Mary Berry, Journal, 26 June 1812: 'We dined with the Princess [of Wales] at Kensington. The company: Lady C. Lindsay, Lady C. Campbell, Mr. Lewis, Sir H. and Lady Davy, Sir J. Mackintosh, Sir H. Englefield, Mrs. and Miss Pole, Lord Glenbervie and Campbell the poet, who was to read his first discourse upon Poetry, which he had delivered at the Institution; he did so during that evening with very good effect [...] Poor Lewis was in a very bad humour, and did not know where to hide his head during the reading, so he pretended to be sleeping.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell : discourse on English poetry and poets
Mary Berry, Journal, 9 March 1814: 'I dined with Madame de Stael; nobody but Campbell the poet, Rocca, and her own daughter [...] After dinner, Campbell read to us a discourse of his upon English poetry and upon some of the great poets. There are always signs of a poet critic and of genius in all he does, often encumbered by too ornate a style.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Campbell
Donald Campbell : A Journey Over Land to India
'Brought Donald Campbell's "Journey Over Land to India" [from the Library]. We had a very high character given of it & the little I have read has not disapointed us.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
Donald Campbell : A Journey Over Land to India
'I finished D. Campbell's "Journey over land to India". It is divided into three parts ... the story of Mr [Alli?] who was shipwrecked and imprisoned with him is very affecting.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Hunter Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : Lines Inscribed on the Monument Lately... Erected
'Lines written to the Memory of Sir G Campbell' 'To Him whose loyal, brave, and gentle heart/...'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown
Thomas Campbell : 'Hohenlinden' OR [The Pleasures of Hope]
'Battle of Hohenlinden' 'On Linden when the Sun was low/...'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown
Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope
'A Fragment' 'And say when summoned from the world and thee/...' ['The Pleasures of Hope', part one, ll. 239-248. Some changes in punctuation]
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Carey/Maingay group Print: Unknown
Thomas Campbell : Life of Mrs Siddons
'Lines by Mrs Siddons Say what's the brightest wreath of fame, ... >From Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons Dec 1834'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Bowly group
Thomas Campbell : Lord Ullin's Daughter
'when I was eleven a school history-book containing biographies of Sir Thomas More, Sir Philip Sidney, and Sire John Eliot showed me that reading could be something quite different. My reading books up to then must have been poor, for I can remember nothing of them except a description of Damascus, with a sentence to the effect that at night the streets were "as silent as the dead". I had had, of course, to learn "Casabianca" and "Lord Ullin's Daughter" and "Excelsior" and the other vapid poems which are supposed to please children, but like everyone else I was bored by them.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Edwin Muir Print: Book
Edward Bellamy : Looking Backwards
'These artless idealists had their favourite authors, which I now proceeded to read...Their piece de resistance was Sir Thomas More's "Utopia", closely followed by the prose works of William Morris, "The Story of the Unknown Church", and the like. There was quite a spate of novels with this ideology, but the only one that has come down to the present day is Edward Bellamy's "Looking Backward".'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Stamper Print: Book
Hilaire Belloc : Path to Rome
'Friday, 19th February, Last night?s meeting was a drawn battle. The ?wants? and the ?don?t wants? did an immense amount of talking, and were theatrical than they ever manage to be on stage. Milligan and Mother stuck their tongues in their cheeks and waited ? until a plan was formulated which while presenting some outward appearance of novelty will leave essentials much as they were. Read ? ?Path to Rome? (H. Belloc)'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
J.J. Bell : Thread o' Scarlet
'Sunday, 28th February, Discussion Group ? We read four plays from which we intend to choose our programme for the summer and next year: ? Thread o? Scarlet? (J. J. Bell) ? A night in the sun? (Dunsany) ? The Monkey?s Paw? (W. W. Jacobs) ?The rising of the moon? ( Lady Gregory) Read ? ?The Four Georges? (W. Thackeray)'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
Hilaire Belloc : The Eye-Witness
'Monday, 22nd March, Read ? ?The eye ? witness? (H. Belloc).'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Serial / periodical
Hilaire Belloc : Pongo and the Bull
'Tuesday 3rd August. ?Pongo and the Bull? ? ( Belloc)'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
James Branch Cabell : Jurgen
'Sunday 12th September ?Jurgen? (James Branch Cabell)'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore Print: Book
George Campbell : The Philosophy of Rhetoric
'Began Campbell's "Rhetoric"...'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : The Pleasures of Hope
'Read Campbell's "Pleasures of Hope". Parts of this Poem are animated and fine...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Green Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : Pleasures of hope
Letter to Miss Dunbar May 1802 [see note] 'Did I tell you I read "Campbell?s Pleasures of Hope" at Wells and was charmed and elevated beyond measure ?'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] Print: Book
Olwen Ward Campbell : Shelley and the Unromantics
'Yes I know Sudermann ? his play ?Magda? was one of Mrs Pat. Campbell?s great parts ? and I believe he was the author of a book called ?The Song of Songs? that Billie Wood lent me ? and that I was shocked to find you reading. I have just got through Susan Glaspell?s ?Road to the Temple?, and C.E.Montague?s ?Right off the Map?. For lighter reading I?ve had Rose Macauley?s ? Keeping up Appearances?, and I?m reading all sorts of things about Shelley for my possible literature class. The present one is ?Shelley and the Unromantics?. The author lives in Birkenhead.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Winifred Agnes Moore Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a Series of Letters to John Watkinson, M.D.
'Saturday Sept. 9th. Read Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland written as it is said by one Campbell. 'Sunday Sept. 10th. Read Survey of the South of Ireland. [...] 'Tuesday Sept. 12th. [...] Read Philosophical Survey's [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy : Gabrielle de Vergy, tragedie
'Friday December 22nd. [...] Read the tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy by Belloi and False Delicacy an English Comedy translated into French.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Claire Clairmont Print: Book
Campbell : The Wizard's Warning
'I remember that I had to learn, with another schoolfellow (Nesbet), an act from Home's tragedy of Douglas, and a long passage from Campbell's Poems, entitled "The Wizard's Warning", and recite, or rather act the passages with as much eloquence and action as we could muster.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Smiles Print: Book
Camille Bellaigue : Psychologie musicale
Brief notes on the front flyleaf, and some marginal notes in English and French throughout.
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vernon Lee Print: Book
Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy : Le Siege de Calais
'It is not my interest to recommend it but in justice to what I owe to your amusement I must advise you to read the Lettres du Marquis de Roselle, if you have not yet seen them. They are written by the wife of Monsieur Beaumont who has got so much credit by defending the family of Calas. I do not recommend the boasted Siege of Calais to you, though it contains some good lines, but the conduct is woeful.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Horace Walpole Print: Book
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll : The Reign of Law
'I somehow could not think the gulph so impassable and read him some notes on the Duke of Argyll.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
John Lord Campbell : Lives of the Lord Chancellors etc
'I have meditated also a large work, on the Plan of ... Campbell's Chancellors ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
Clive Bell : Art
'Clive Bell's Art had been published in February 1914. It propounded the concept of "Significant form", but Virginia [Woolf], reading it in the midst of her [mental] illness, did not much appreciate it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Book
Quentin Bell : letter
Virginia Woolf to Quentin Bell, 26 November 1933: 'I read your letter with great pleasure in Time and Tide; it seemed to me put with masterly brevity; most true.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf Print: Serial / periodical
Thomas Campbell : Life of Mrs Siddons
'Pray do you now and then read modern Biography? I have been highly entertained, & even interested by the Memoirs of Mathews, edited & mostly written by his wife. Well, and another lively amusing book of the same class is the Life of Grimaldi, by Dickens. Both Mathews & Grimaldi, though considered as Buffoons, were full of good feeling, & excellent private characters. I arose from the perusal of each work, with respect & love for both men; and since the publication of Crabb's Memoirs, and Campbell's Life of Mrs Siddons, I have read no Biography I like half so well'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Harriet Burney Print: Book
Clive Bell : autobiographical essay
6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Bell Manuscript: Unknown
Vanessa Bell : autobiographical essay
6 March 1920: 'On Thursday, dine with the MacCarthys, & the first Memoir Club meeting [hosted by MacCarthys]. A highly interesting occasion. Seven people read -- & Lord knows what I didnt read into their reading. Sydney [Waterlow] [...] signified as much by reading us a dream [...] altogether a queer, self-conscious, self analytic performance [...] Clive purely objective; Nessa starting matter of fact: then overcome by the emotional depths to be traversed; & unable to read aloud what she had written. Duncan fantastic & tongue -- not tied -- tongue enchanted. Molly literary about tendencies & William Morris, carefully composed at first, & even formal: suddenly saying "Oh this is absurd -- I can't go on" shuffling all her sheets; beginning on the wrong page; firmly but waveringly, & carrying through to the end [...] Roger well composed; story of a coachman who stole geraniums & went to prison.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vanessa Bell Manuscript: Unknown
Clive Bell : [journalism]
Monday 6 February 1922: 'What a sprightly journalist Clive Bell is! I have just read him, & see how my sentences would have to be clipped to march in time with his.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf
Maggie Bell : [MS. novel]
'Miss Maggie Bell has sent me [a] MS. novel to look over, - she is a nice person, and I know I once wanted to help sorely'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Manuscript: Unknown
Currer Bell [pseud.] : Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
'I thank you too for C.E. and A. Bell's poems (my copy has never turned up)'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
Clive Bell, Walter Lamb, Lytton Strachey, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Leonard Woolf et al : Euphrosne
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 3 September 1905: 'Euphrosne arrived. It is a queer medley. There are only 3 things in it wh. I ever want to read again, the Cat [by Strachey], Ningamus & the thing about the song, I forget its name.'
UnknownCentury: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf
George Anne Bellamy : Memoirs of George Anne Bellamy
'I take this opportunity of returning you A.K.'s fragments. I do believe it has been of material service... as for A.K.'s French pasage, you will be surprised at the impression it makes on my mind - as neither more nor less than [italics] commonplace [end italics] Perhaps she has not, but I have read so many descriptions of concentrated feelings, boiling passion under [italics] un froid exterieur [end italics], dark and gloomy minds, that this strikes me as only what I have seen fifty times before [LS then critiques 'The school of Sentiment'] By her further description I should pronounce it [italics] unwholesome [italics] reading. The smallest grain of [italics] amour physique [end italics] poisons the whole, renders it literally and positively [italics] beastly [end italics], for it is describing the sensations of a brute animal. And here lies the difference between even [italics] bad [end italics] English books and the French ones, which everyone reads without blushing. Mrs Bellamy and Mrs Baddeley, two women of the town, whom I remember as actresses, wrote their Memoirs. They painted their first false steaps either as the effect of seduction, they were victims to the arts employed to ruin them, or else they had been led away by their [italics] affections [end italics]; they had conceived a violent passion for such and such a man, whom they took pains to paint as formed to captivate the [italics] heart [end italics]. Madame Roland, one of the heroines of the French Revolution, a [italics] virtuous [end italics] woman, so far as chastity goes, writes her Memoirs and tells you what were her [italics] sensations towards the opposite sex in general [end italics] (without any particular object) at 14 or 15 years old!!! And young ladies were taught to read and admire this who would not have been allowed to open "Tom Jones", where Fielding does describe [italics] l'amour physique [end italics] between Tom and Molly Seagrim, but I daresay would as soon have given Sophia an inclination to commit murder as hinted that she ever had Madame Roland's [italics] sensations[end italics], or even that Tom had them towards her'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Louisa, Lady Stuart Print: Book
John Campbell : Hermippus Redivivus: Or, the Sage's Triumph Over Old Age and the Grave.
'Dr John Campbell, the celebrated political and biographical writer, being mentioned, Johnson said, "Campbell is a man of much knowledge, and has a good share of imagination. His "Hermippus Redivivus" is very entertaining, as an account of the Hermetick philosophy, and as furnishing a curious history of the human mind. If it were merely imaginary it would be nothing at all.".'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
Campbell :
'Many friends of Somersby days have told me of the exceeding consideration and love which my father showed his mother [...] and how he might often be found in her room reading aloud, with his flexible voice, Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, and Campbell's patriotic ballads.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson Print: Book
Thomas Campbell : Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters
'[Dr Thomas Campbell, who dined with Johnson on 3 April 1775] has since published "A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland," a very entertaining book, which has, however, one fault:—that it assumes the fictitious character of an Englishman.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell Print: Book
John Campbell : Political Survey of Great Britain, A
' [Johnson said] "When Lord Lyttelton's 'Dialogues of the Dead' came out, one of which is between Apicius, an ancient epicure, and Dartineuf, a modern epicure, Dodsley said to me, 'I knew Dartineuf well, for I was once his footman.'" Biography led us to speak of Dr. John Campbell, who had written a considerable part of the "Biographia Britannica" Johnson, though he valued him highly, was of opinion that there was not so much in his great work, "A Political Survey of Great Britain," as the world had been taught to expect'.
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson Print: Book
John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne : Guido and Lita: A Tale of the Riviera.
'Figure to yourself, I wrote a review of Lord Lorne for "Vanity Fair" − a few pages of scurrility that I wrote laughing in an hour or two − and I got − guess! − I got five pounds for it and the price of the book! That was jolly, wasn’t it? Long live "Vanity Fair"!'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson Print: Book
W.N.P. Barbellion : unknown
'Yesterday I read bits of Barbellion, whose life seemd to be filled, like mine, with rejected manuscripts.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book
Thomas Campbell :
'The poets John read at Highgate Junior School included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Campbell and Edgar Allan Poe'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Betjeman Print: Book
Malcolm Campbell : My Greatest Adventure
'I read "My Greatest Adventure" by Malcolm Campbell. While treasure hunting on the Cocos, he mentions as typical of the hardships they had to endure the fact that he had to eat a boiled egg without a spoon. This makes us laugh like drains.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Kitching Print: Book
Adrian Bell : [unknown]
'At 7.15pm, I go to a new series of readings from famous authors on the English countryside - selections from Mary Webb, D.H. Lawrence and Adrian Bell. The commentary, is read by the Bishop of Singapore.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: prisoners of war Print: Book
Thomas Campbell :
'We may suspect that the library was dearer to Papa and Annabella than to Mamma [...] She liked visiting the neighbours and tenants, with a friendly finger ready to stick in everybody's pie, and consequent plums to bring back for the Jack Horners at home, writing their verses and reading their Milton and Cowper and Campbell.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Ralph and Anne Isabella Milbanke Print: Book
Bell : 'specimen of a historical novel'
Wednesday, 23 January 1829: 'Mr. Bell sends me a spec[i]ment [sic] of a Historical novel but he goes not the way to write it. He is too general and not sufficient[ly] minute. It is not easy to convey this to an author with the necessary attention to his feelings and yet in good faith and sincerity it must be done.'
UnknownCentury: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Walter Scott
Sydney Dobell : Balder
[Charlotte Bronte to Sydney Dobell, 3 February 1854:]
'"Balder" arrived safely. I looked at him, before cutting his leaves, with singular pleasure [...] I have read him. He impresses me thus: He teems with power; I found in him a wild wealth of life [...]
'There is power in that character of "Balder," and to me a certain horror. Did you mean it to embody, along with force, any of the special defects of the artistic character? It seems to me that those defects were never thrown out in stronger lines. I did not and could not think you meant to offer him as your cherished ideal of the true great poet; I regard him as a vividly coloured picture of inflated self-esteem, almost frantic aspiration; of a nature that has made a Moloch of intellect — offered up, in pagan fires, the natural affections — sacrificed the heart to the brain. Do we not all know that true greatness is simple, self-oblivious, prone to unambitious, unselfish attachments? I am certain you feel this truth in your heart of hearts.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book
Hilaire Belloc : Cautionary Tales for Children
'A Meeting held at Grove House May 3rd H. B. Lawson in the chair
Min 1. Minutes of last Read and approved
[...]
[Min] 4 The Subject of the evening "Humour" was then introduced by H. B. Lawson who fascinated us by his thoughtful attempts to define his subject[.] An interesting discussion followed in which the disputants backed their opinions by literary allusion and we were led to wonder if Humour flowed from F E Pollards heart & wit from R H Robsons head.
After Supper the Club settled down to enjoy the following selections chosen to represent English Humour in literature down the
Ages[:]
Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales The Prioress & Wife of Bath read by Howard R. Smith
Shakespeares Henry IV The Men in Buckram read by R. H Robson Fallstaff
[ditto] S. A. Reynolds Poins
[ditto] C. E. Stansfield Prince Hall [sic]
[ditto] Geo Burrow Gadshill
Jane Austin Pride & Prejudice Mr. Collins proposes
[ditto] Mrs Robson
Charles Dickens David Copperfield Mrs Micawber on her husbands career[?] Geo Burrow
Charles Lamb A Letter Alfred Rawlings
Lewis Carrols Alice in Wonderland The Lobster Quadrill Mary Reynolds
Jerome K. Jerome Three Men in a Boat Uncle Podger hangs a picture F. E. Pollard
Hilaire Belloc Cautionary Tales "George" recited by Howard R. Smith'
